We're very pleased to announce the general availability of JOnAS 5.2M5.
This release is Java EE 5 certified

JOnAS 5.2 M5 is on its way to Java EE 6: CDI / EJB 3.1 Singleton / JPA 2.0 / Bean Validation / JAX-RS 1.1, Servlet 3.0 (+ updated JSP and EL) are supported.
A new nice features has been introduced in this version : The MBean explorer tool which is available in the jonasAdmin console allows to read/write/invoke the MBeans attributes/methods embedded in JOnAS.

This is the last milestone before the first Release Candidate.

There are also plenty of bug fixes and components upgrades to provides better security, more performances and an always up to date JOnAS experience.

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.2.0-M5 are available for download:

• JOnAS Full-profile which is a full-blown Java EE Application Server : ( Java Web Start Installer / Java Offline Installer / Zip / Tgz / Rpm )
• JOnAS Micro-profile which is a small bootstrap for JOnAS that will download services on demand (An internet connection is required): (Zip / Tgz)

JIRA issue tracker instance is available at http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS

Please report issues on this tracker or through the mailing lists.

Issues fixed for JOnAS 5.2.0 M5

Bug

• (JONAS-301) - Wrong Classpath for GenIC (rmic) when -nofastrmic is used
• (JONAS-309) - Missing check in JManagedConnection.remove()
• (JONAS-320) - Dependency injection of EJB in Servlet is not working with Jetty
• (JONAS-327) - NPE if an invalid file (does not exist) is given to ClientContainer
• (JONAS-328) - Invalid URL in the JOnAS Autostart Kerneos module
• (JONAS-329) - Datasource deployment plan cannot use JNDI name with '/'
• (JONAS-349) - "Should not skip: ^" is appearing sometimes at the JOnAS startup
• (JONAS-359) - newjc tool is broken

New Feature

• (JONAS-345) - Integrate the MBeans explorer console of EZB in jonasAdmin
• (JONAS-346) - Add support of Async Reliable WS (Cxf based)
• (JONAS-351) - Provides HTTP level InvocationID propagation for audit system

Task

• (JONAS-286) - Using MySQL with JOnAS in eclipse
• (JONAS-330) - Update To Apache Tomcat 7.0.8
• (JONAS-331) - Update To Apache Tomcat 6.0.32
• (JONAS-332) - Update to Apache Felix 3.0.8
• (JONAS-333) - Update to Apache Felix iPOJO 1.8.0
• (JONAS-334) - Update to Apache CXF 2.2.12
• (JONAS-336) - Update to Apache Felix 3.0.9
• (JONAS-337) - Update to Jetty 6.1.26
• (JONAS-350) - Update OW2 joram to 5.5.0
• (JONAS-352) - Update OW2 bundles to 1.0.25
• (JONAS-353) - Update OW2 Util to 1.0.27
• (JONAS-355) - Update to JOnAS Admin kerneos 1.0.1
• (JONAS-356) - Update OW2 EasyBeans to 1.2.0 M4
• (JONAS-360) - Update OW2 bundles to 1.0.26
• (JONAS-361) - Update OW2 Util to 1.0.28
• (JONAS-362) - Update to OW2 JOnAS Admin kerneos 1.0.2

Florent