A new Release Candidate of the development branch (1.1.0-RC2) of the OW2 EasyBeans product (EJB 3 container) has been released.

This version is included in the Java EE 5 certified version of OW2 JOnAS 5.1 Application server.

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-RC2 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 5.1 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_RC2

Download

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

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Migration

There is no configuration step between 1.1.0-M1/M2/M3 and 1.1.0-RC2 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-366) - In BMT Stateful Interceptors, transaction are not always forgotten
• (EZB-367) - <queue> element in the easybeans.xml cannot be parsed
• (UTIL-51) - NPE if the setter of an attribute is not found and if this attribute has no mapping
• (UTIL-52) - Some primitive types are not supported when parsing the attribute values.

Improvement

• (EZB-365) - Provide a configuration file to Hsqldb

New Feature

• (EZB-373) - Allow to add programatically global interceptors for each method

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