Hello,

A new milestone of the development branch (1.1.0-M3) of the OW2 EasyBeans product (EJB 3 container) has been released.

EasyBeans can be embedded in JOnAS application server, Apache Tomcat application server, Jetty application server, on an OSGi gateway (by using EasyBeans OSGi bundles) or run in standalone mode.

EasyBeans is bundled with either Hibernate Entity Manager, Apache OpenJPA, TopLink Essentials or EclipseLink as persistence provider.

The 1.1.0-M3 release is provided with the latest versions of each Persistence Manager, including Hibernate (Core 3.3.1GA/Manager 3.4.0 GA), OpenJPA 1.2.0, EclipseLink 1.0.1, TopLink Essentials 2.1-60f

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8, 4.8.6, 4.9.2 and 4.10.3)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.27 and 6.0.18)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.15)
Getting started with the EasyBeans OSGi bundles

Note: EasyBeans is already bundled in the OW2 JOnAS 5.0 application server.
EasyBeans is also working in standalone mode (Uberjar packages are available)

The documentation is available on the EasyBeans documentation website. (HTML or PDF)

The Release Notes are available online at : http://www.easybeans.net/xwiki/bin/view/News/Release1_1_0_M3

Download

A new EasyBeans version is out and is available in the Downloads section or in the OW2 maven repository or any maven mirror.

Download the version Now !

Migration

There is no configuration step between 1.1.0-M1/M2 and 1.1.0-M3 version

Mailing list

Stay tuned on EasyBeans with the easybeans-announce mailing list : http://mail.ow2.org/wws/subrequest/easybeans-announce

Release Notes:

Bug

• (EZB-319) - Default interceptors are not working as expected
• (EZB-324) - please provide a name property for EZBContainer
• (EZB-338) - Container Managed EntityManager should throw Exceptions for some cases
• (EZB-341) - JORAM's jars in EasyBeans for JOnAS RAR
• (UTIL-31) - Possible freeze in the EventDispatcher

Improvement

• (BUNDLE-10) - Export the 'com.sun.xml.fastinfoset.*' packages from the JAXB2 bundle
• (EZB-317) - EZB proxy not serializable in IIOP
• (EZB-323) - The EJB Context (java:comp) building should be extensible
• (EZB-325) - Export org.hibernate.annotations package from org.ow2.easybeans.core
• (EZB-327) - JDBCPool Doesn't renew timedout connections (Validity check wrong with checkLevel=1)
• (EZB-328) - SessionBusinessInterfaceFinder throw an Exception when an EJB has no interfaces
• (EZB-330) - Use OW2 Util WebServiceRef Builder for @WebServiceRef handling in ArchiveInjection
• (EZB-332) - ArchiveInjection should supports injection of already loaded metadatas
• (EZB-333) - Avoid to log duplicate class definition error by EasyBeans Classloader at the error level
• (UTIL-32) - Supports URL injection in XMLConfiguration
• (UTIL-33) - XML Mapping file resource discovery enhancement
• (UTIL-39) - Refactor webservices metadatas

New Feature

• (BUNDLE-9) - XMLConfig bundle should be able to import any exported package
• (EZB-329) - Add support of service-ref elements in the META-INF/easybeans.xml
• (UTIL-34) - Extract injection-target from metadata in a convenient way
• (UTIL-35) - Merge web.xml metadata information with the class metadata
• (UTIL-37) - Add support for @WebServiceProvider annotations

Task

• (EZB-13) - Add getBusinessObject() of SessionContext
• (EZB-14) - Add getInvokedBusinessInterface() of SessionContext
• (EZB-41) - Support for EJB 2.1 client view of session bean.
• (EZB-51) - Support for PersistenceUnit reference injection using a Deployment Descriptor.
• (EZB-60) - The container must throw the java.lang.IllegalStateException when the access to a SessionContext method is not allowed.
• (EZB-78) - Tests for annotations in the client side.
• (EZB-92) - Tests for security management in the deployment descriptor.
• (EZB-331) - Allow to use enhanced class by other frameworks
• (EZB-334) - Add support for security-role-ref
• (EZB-335) - Add EclipseLink support for EasyBeans/OSGi
• (EZB-337) - Manage allowed operations as specified in the spec
• (EZB-339) - Add support for message-destination-link
• (EZB-340) - Allow to set a list of EasyBeans configuration files
• (EZB-342) - Upgrade to Hibernate Search 3.1.0 GA
• (EZB-343) - Upgrade to TopLink Essentials 2.1-60f
• (UTIL-36) - Add support for security-role-ref
• (UTIL-38) - Support for PersistenceContext reference injection using a Deployment Descriptor.

Best Regards,

Florent