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JOnAS 5.1.0 M2 Available

    Hi,

A new Milestone of the development branch JOnAS 5.1 is available: JOnAS 5.1.0 M2.

This release is available othe download page or with a JNLP installer.

JOnAS 5.1.0-M2 is distributed as a set of OSGiTM bundles that are deployed on top of the Apache Felix gateway.
Some information can be found on the New and noteworthy and the Getting Started.

Improvements:

  • Components upgrade
    • OW2 EasyBeans (1.1.0.M3-JONAS)

    • OW2 Utils (1.0.10)
    • OW2 CMI (2.1.1)
    • OW2 Carol (3.0.2)
    • Apache CXF (2.0.9)

    • Apache Felix (1.4.0)
      • Note: due to a security issue in Apache Felix 1.4.0 (see the related issue here), the system security policies (java.policy) are partially supported on JOnAS 5.1.0-M2

New features:

  • Dump Threads Stack Trace
    • New operations in the 'J2EE Server' MBean for getting a stack trace of the JVM threads. The output can be printed on the console, in the LOG file, or in a given file).
    • New flex module in jonasAdmin console (under the monitoring node) for browsing the threads's stack trace
      Due to a known limitation (will be fixed in the next release), this feature is only available for single (not in a cluster) JOnAS servers if they are started in master mode.
  • Web Container

    • Support of @RunAs annotations on web components (Servlet)
  • JAX-WS 2.0
    • Apache Axis2 1.3 has been integrated as a JAX-WS 2.x Provider. It currently supports:
      • POJO and EJB exposition as WebServices
      • @HandlerChain resolution
    • Apache CXF 2.0.9 improvements
      • @WebServiceRef are supported for all potential clients (EJBs, Web applications using Tomcat and Application clients)
      • Annotated POJO (@WebServices running in web container) supported

      • Retrieving endpoint's WSDL from URL is now supported (URL must ends with ?WSDL, as usual)
    • SAAJ 1.3
      • Use SAAJ 1.3 RI from Sun
  • Deployment Plans
    • Resource resolving optimized when the resource URL is local
  • EasyBeans 1.1.0-M3-JONAS

    • Improved support for EJB 2.1 Session Beans: ejbCreate() method is now supoprted
  • Clustering
    • Update to JGroups 2.6.7.GA
    • New cluster example for javaee 5 (sampleCluster3)
  • Logging
    • Do not fail (and stop JOnAS' startup sequence) when the log configuration is invalid (trace.properties)

Documentation

  • New clustering guide
  • OW2 JOnAS' ClassLoaders documentation has been improved to explain delegation and OSGi rules

Bug fixes.

  • Deployment plans: fix issue during deployment of URL resources
  • Allow to start a JOnAS server on Windows if the JONAS_ROOT directory path contains whitespaces

Best Regards,

JOnAS Team

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