Hello,

A new version (1.2.0-M3) of the OW2 EasyBeans product (EJB 3 container) has been released.

This version is included in the OW2 JOnAS 5.2 M3 application server.

EasyBeans can be embedded in JOnAS application server, Apache Tomcat application server, Jetty application server, on OSGi (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 1.2.0-M3 release is provided with some Persistence Providers including:

• Hibernate 3.5.6-Final (JPA 2.0 compliant)
• OpenJPA 2.0.1 (JPA 2.0 compliant)
• EclipseLink 2.1.1 (JPA 2.0 compliant)
  
• TopLink Essentials 2.1-60f
  

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.x, 4.8.x, 4.9.x and 4.10.x)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.x and 6.0.x)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x/7.x (tested with 6.1.23 and 7.x)
Getting started with the EasyBeans OSGi bundles

Note: EasyBeans is already bundled in the OW2 JOnAS 5.2 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_2_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 !

A Java WebStart online installer is also available  (Or try online installer without Java WebStart)

New features

JPA 2.0 is available when using EclipseLink, Hibernate or OpenJPA packages. A new JPA 2.0 example is provided in order to illustrate the use of this new API.

Migration

Configuration of some components has changed between 1.1.x and 1.2.x.
Check the difference before launching EasyBeans
OSGi changes : Split of the core bundle: Now there are several "small" bundles. This is more modular. Also, there are bundles for each persistence provider. EclipseLink or other persistence framework are supported (in addition to the previous support of Hibernate in OSGi mode)

Note: In OSGi mode, there is a large choice of Persistence Providers. Hibernate 3.4 or 3.5, EclipseLink 1 or EclipseLink 2 and OpenJPA 1 or OpenJPA 2 !

Mailing list

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

Release Notes:

Bug

• EZB-441) - Cyclic dependencies in some modules
• (EZB-442) - Wrong creation of singleton instance
• (EZB-446) - When in a CMT MDB the transaction is rollbacked the message is acknowledged.
• (EZB-448) - ServerConfig extensions are not added when container is added through OSGi mode
• (EZB-458) - easyBeans internal cleanup method is exposed through WS
• (UTIL-85) - Parsing throws an Exception with string containing enclosing section with no start marker
• (UTIL-86) - Potential NPE in RecursiveResolver
• (UTIL-88) - Class aliases are reused as Attribute aliases
• (UTIL-89) - Code assume that the alias attribute is mandatory, while the schema says it is optional
• (UTIL-91) - Unmarshalling objects should also work with primitive classes

Improvement

• (EZB-445) - SmartClient component should create a directory per remote host

New Feature

• (BUNDLE-25) - Add Util Substitution Bundle

Task

• (EZB-443) - Update Apache Felix Declarative Services component to 1.6.0
• (EZB-449) - Update to OW2 bundles 1.0.22
• (EZB-450) - Update to OW2 Util 1.0.24
• (EZB-451) - Update to OW2 spec 1.0.4
• (EZB-452) - Tests should be done with new Tomcat 6.0.29
• (EZB-453) - Update EclipseLink to 2.1.1
• (EZB-454) - Update to Apache OpenJPA 2.0.1
• (EZB-455) - Update to Hibernate 3.5.6-Final
• (EZB-456) - EasyBeans installer may not work on Windows 7 64bits system
• (EZB-457) - Upgrade maven ant tasks
• (EZB-459) - Switch to OW2 util marshalling instead of EasyBeans marshalling util
• (EZB-460) - Update OW2 Util to 1.0.25

Best Regards,

Florent