Hi JOnAS users,

We're very pleased to announce the general availability of a new milestone of JOnAS 5.3 : 5.3.0 M5.

New features in this release:
 - OSGi framework is now using/providing OSGi r4.3 API and is using Felix v4.0.1
 - JDK7 compliance

There are also plenty of bug fixes and components upgrades : #24 issues closed !

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.3.0 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 )
• JOnAS Micro-profile which is a small bootstrap for JOnAS that will download services on demand (An internet connection is required): (Zip / Tgz)

Please report issues on this tracker or through the mailing-list

Bug

• (JONAS-535) - The new (modular) JOnAS ANT tasks don't have a Maven2 artifact
• (JONAS-538) - Configuring EasyBeans/EJB Pool timeout value via @Pool annotation: ClassCastException occurs
• (JONAS-539) - ContextConfig.webConfig : No global web.xml found
• (JONAS-544) - ClassLoader admin tool is not working if domain name and servername are changed
• (JONAS-547) - The ANT tasks don't change the multicast port in jgroups-ha.xml
• (JONAS-564) - IllegalStateException during stop
• (JONAS-565) - Datasource 1.0 no longer recognized
• (JONAS-566) - Local repositories are inaccessible when JONAS_BASE is set to a relative path
• (JONAS-571) - JOnAS does not start with JDK7
• (JONAS-572) - Avoid to unpack .war/.ear files if they haven't been modified
• (JONAS-575) - Unable to access sun.print package
• (JONAS-578) - jonas check report errors and it shouldn't as there are no errors
• (JONAS-579) - Avoids velocity.log when autogen-ic is ran
• (JONAS-662) - Error when DB has closed the connection and checklevel set to 2
• (JONAS-671) - java.io.StreamCorruptedException with distributed transaction

Improvement

• (JONAS-552) - Add of an abstract class for DeployerLog in order to have several DeployerLog class
• (JONAS-553) - Update ow2-util-plugin.version to 1.0.33-SNAPSHOT
• (JONAS-554) - Update ow2-util-ant-tasks.version to 1.0.33-SNAPSHOT
• (JONAS-555) - Depmonitor service should use the new DeployableHelper OSGi service
• (JONAS-556) - Depmonitor should use the new DeployableHelperException class
• (JONAS-557) - Because of UTIL-113, UTIL-114, UTIL-115, UTIL-116 and UTIL-117, shade-jonas-transformers need to be update
• (JONAS-558) - All paths to the jonas.properties file should be moved from $JONAS_BASE/conf/jonas.properties to $JONAS_BASE/work/conf-generated/jonas.properties
• (JONAS-576) - Because of UTIL-126, the addon deployer need to be updated
• (JONAS-584) - Addition of a new IAddonConfig component in order to get the path of each configuration file of an addon
• (JONAS-656) - Upgrade Apache Felix to 4.0.1

New Feature

• (JONAS-551) - Addition of jonas-addon api, impl and service modules

Task

• (JONAS-658) - Update EclipseLink 2 to 2.3.0 version
• (JONAS-672) - Update OW2 Util to 1.0.33
• (JONAS-673) - Update OW2 Bundles to 1.0.31
• (JONAS-674) - Update OW2 EasyBeans to 1.2.3
• (JONAS-675) - Update OW2 JOnAS Admin Flex to 1.0.5

Sub-Tasks

• (JONAS-586) - Update jtm service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-587) - Update db service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-590) - Update resource service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-595) - Update ejb2 service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-598) - Update jaxws service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-599) - Update tomcat6 service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-601) - Update jetty6 service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-604) - Update discovery-multicast service in order to use the new IAddonConfig Component
• (JONAS-626) - Provides an addon for tomcat6 service