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.

Florent

Oct 09, 2008: 1.1.0-M1 Available

   Hello,

A new milestone of the development branch (1.1.0-M1) 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 or TopLink Essentials as persistence provider.
With the 1.1.0-M1 version, EclipseLink is also supported.
The 1.1.0-M1 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, etc.

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 5.5.26 and 6.0.18)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.12)
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_M1

Download

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

Download the version Now !

Migration

There is no configuration step between 1.0.x and 1.1.0-M1 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-270)
  • entity bean sample don't work with openjpa in standalone easybeans
  1.0.0 package
• (EZB-272)
  • Joram OSGi bundle component should not import com.scalagent.scheduler
• (EZB-273)
  • Cannot mark as ApplicationException a runtime exception of the JDK
• (EZB-275)
  • config.ini doesnt work with equinox
• (EZB-276)
  • NPE in SmartContextFactory
• (EZB-278)
  • XADatasource with @Resource annotation not handled
• (EZB-279)
  • Invalid jar name in standalone packages of EasyBeans
• (EZB-281)
  • easybeans.core - import package problem
• (EZB-284)
  • A war library pack in an ear avoid deployment
• (EZB-286)
  • blocking shutdown on Tomcat 6
• (EZB-299)
  • EZBReferences bound multiples times
• (EZB-303)
  • AbstractMethod error can happen in some cases when inheritance is used
• (EZB-305)
  • Get "No EntityManager stack associated on the current thread without
  TX" when tx is marked as rollback
• (EZB-306)
  • MessageDrivenContext not bound in ENC

Improvement

• (EZB-207) null
• null
• 1. null
  2. null
  3. 1. the classes that are referenced in an EJB metadata (*Home, Local
  null null
null nulland Remote Interfaces etc..) loadable through the container classloader
• (EZB-236)
  • Try to improve ear deployement
• (EZB-287)
  • osgi bundle easybeans.core doesn't export hibernate.annotations
• (EZB-290) null
• 1. null
  2. 1. Equinox Configuration Admin Service the Configuration can not be
  null
nullfound with "(service.pid=org.ow2.easybeans.configuration)"
• (EZB-291)
  • The HSQLDBComponent should allow the hostname to be configured; and
  use localhost as a default
• (EZB-293)
  • implement Interface ManagedService Interface (EJB Services registered
  by EZB)

New Feature

• (EZB-199)
  • Expose EJBs as OSGi Services
• (EZB-221)
  • Add the capability to put the clustering parameters in a specific
  deployment descriptor
• (EZB-282)
  • Add support for EclipseLink as persistence provider

Task

• (EZB-269)
  • Migrate Documentation to Docbook 5 format
• (EZB-289)
  • Expose JNDI Resolver for clients
• (EZB-298)
  • Use new version of bundles org.apache.felix.scr &&
  org.apache.felix.configadmin
• (EZB-301)
  • Update to new Hibernate Entity Manager 3.4.0 GA and its dependencies
• (EZB-302)
  • Allow to embed new Hibernate Entity Manager in OSGi mode
• (EZB-307)
  • Add the META-INF/orm.xml entry as a mapping-file entry by default
• (EZB-308)
  • Inject env-entry if injection-target is specified in the ejb-jar.xml
  file
• (EZB-309)
  • Update Hibernate core to 3.3.1.GA, validator to 3.1.0.GA
• (EZB-310)
  • Update OpenJPA to 1.2.0
• (EZB-311)
  • Update EclipseLink to 1.0.1

Florent

Oct 09, 2008: 1.0.2 available

   Hello,

A maintenance release (1.0.2) 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 or TopLink Essentials as persistence provider.

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8, 4.8.6, 4.9.3 and 4.10.3)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.26 and 6.0.18)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.12)
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_0_2

Download

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

Download the version Now !

Migration

There is no configuration step between 1.0.0, 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 version

Mailing list

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

Release Notes:

• (EZB-286)
  • blocking shutdown on Tomcat 6
• (EZB-303)
  • AbstractMethod error can happen in some cases when inheritance is used
• (EZB-305)
  • Get "No EntityManager stack associated on the current thread without
  TX" when tx is marked as rollback
• (EZB-287)
  • osgi bundle easybeans.core doesn't export hibernate.annotations

Best Regards,

Florent

Jul 04, 2008: 1.0.1 available

   Hello,

A maintenance release (1.0.1) 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 or TopLink Essentials as persistence provider.

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8 and 4.8.6 and 4.9.2)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.26 and 6.0.16)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.9)
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_0_1

Download

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

Download the version Now !

Migration

There is no configuration step between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 version

Mailing list

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

Release Notes:

• (EZB-270)
  • entity bean sample don't work with openjpa in standalone easybeans
  1.0.0 package
• (EZB-272)
  • Joram OSGi bundle component should not import com.scalagent.scheduler
• (EZB-273)
  • Cannot mark as ApplicationException a runtime exception of the JDK
• (EZB-275)
  • config.ini doesnt work with equinox
• (EZB-276)
  • NPE in SmartContextFactory
• (EZB-278)
  • XADatasource with @Resource annotation not handled
• (EZB-279)
  • Invalid jar name in standalone packages of EasyBeans

• (EZB-269)
  • Migrate Documentation to Docbook 5 format

Best Regards,

Florent

Jun 06, 2008: EasyBeans / OSGi on Equinox

Ekke, from the EasyBeans community has written an article explaining how to integrate the EasyBeans bundles with Eclipse Equinox 3.4 RC3

The article is available on http://ekkes-corner.blogspot.com/2008/06/easybeans-und-equinox.html

May 06, 2008: 1.0.0 available

OW2, the leading consortium in Open Source middleware announced at the JavaOne event the release of EasyBeans 1.0, an easy-to-use embeddable lightweight EJB^TM 3 container. EasyBeans has been successfully integrated within the OW2 JOnAS application server and allows developers to deploy EJB components very easily.

EasyBeans main features include:

• Embeddable lightweight EJB 3 container. EasyBeans can be embedded in several application servers including Apache Tomcat, Jetty and OW2 JOnAS (http://jonas.ow2.org) application servers. It is embeddable in any Java program or test suite to provide EJB testing. EJB clustering is available in all the embedded forms with the strength of OW2 CMI v2 product. It also allows quick and scalable deployment of clients with its Smart JNDI factory.

• Modular and pluggable container available as OSGi^TM bundles. Available as a set of OSGi^TM bundles, EasyBeans is a modular container. EasyBeans components can be started on demand and only a subset can be used. The full power of EasyBeans is available when deployed on OSGi gateways or on OSGi based application servers such as OW2 JOnAS 5.0. The better of the two worlds are available to the developers: EJB components are available from OSGi and OSGi components can be used in any EJB. Moreover, EJB-JAR can be deployed as OSGi bundles and thus leverages all lifecycle and dynamism features offered by OSGi.

• Open source Web 2.0 console. EasyBeans is delivered with a state-of-the -art web 2.0 console using one of the most mature technologies in the RIA world. The console is based on Adobe Flex3 while the server side is managed in Java.

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

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8 and 4.8.6 and 4.9.2)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.26 and 6.0.16)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.9)
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_0_0

Download

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

Download the version Now !

New features

Management console
A preview of the EasyBeans management console is available in the download section of EasyBeans. This console is built on top of the Flex RIA technology.

Persistence
Persistence Providers have been updated to their latest versions.

Migration

There is no configuration step for migrating from the 1.0RC3 to the 1.0.0

Mailing list

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

Release Notes:

• (EZB-245)
  • Missing/Wrong IIOP Stubs
• (EZB-259)
  • ClassNotFoundException when using JMS ObjectMessage
• (EZB-260)
  • LinkageError may happen when using security manager on Tomcat
• (EZB-264)
  • JACC provider not stopped at the EasyBeans shutdown
• (EZB-265)
  • Joram not removing its MBeans at the stop
• (EZB-266)
  • Smart server not releasing server socket when stopping

• (EZB-2)
  • Improve management capabilities of EasyBeans
• (EZB-208)
  • Provide a smartclient maven pom.xml without any dependency.
• (EZB-227)
  • Using Configuration Service when initializing EasyBeans-Osgi
• (EZB-261)
  • Use of Monolog 2.1.11 used by Joram
• (EZB-263)
  • Allow to use classloader as the key for the smart factory instead of
  Provider URL

• (EZB-3)
  • Provide an EasyBeans management console
• (EZB-247)
  • Add a description to an embedded server.
• (EZB-248)
  • Expose a method to shutdown easybeans in standalone mode
• (EZB-249)
  • Provide clustering when Easybeans is standalone
• (EZB-250)
  • Allow to add properties to extend the configuration of Carol
• (EZB-251)
  • Allow to refer to the value of a system property
• (EZB-253)
  • Add a timeout configuration parameter for EJB pool

• (EZB-37)
  • Support for @EJB and @EJBs for Message-Driven Beans.
• (EZB-53)
  • Support for @Resource and @Resources for Message-Driven Beans.
• (EZB-56)
  • Support for @Resource and @Resources in a bean superclass.
• (EZB-57)
  • Support Simple Environment Entries injection using a Deployment
  Descriptor.
• (EZB-70)
  • Support for SessionSynchronization interface.
• (EZB-82)
  • Tests for SessionSynchronization interface and interceptors.
• (EZB-223)
  • Joram 5.0.9 support
• (EZB-246)
  • Upgrade to Carol 3
• (EZB-256)
  • Use of Maven bundle plugin 1.4.0
• (EZB-257)
  • Allow to find EJB in other EJB-JAR of the EAR when using @EJB
  annotation
• (EZB-258)
  • Allow injection of @EJB in servlets when EasyBeans is embedded in
  Tomcat
• (EZB-262)
  • Upgrade to CXF 2.0.6
• (EZB-267)
  • Register JNDI MBean which provide access to registry JNDI names
    

Best Regards,

Florent

Mar 10, 2008: 1.0 RC3 available

Hello,

A new release candidate (1.0.0 RC3) 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 or TopLink Essentials as persistence provider.

Here are the guides:
Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8 and 4.8.6 and 4.9.1)
Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.26 and 6.0.16)
Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.8)
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_0_RC3

Download

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

Download the Release Candidate 3 version Now !

New features

Deployment Descriptor
A new specific deployment descriptor file for EJBs named META-INF/easybeans.xml can be used. This allows to define some settings that are not part of the standard deployment descriptor like the pooling. Pool can be also configured by using specific annotations like @Pool.
The Pool example is illustrating the use of this specific deployment descriptor.

CXF
For people interested in EJB3 and JAX-WS, the EasyBeans/CXF project has been mavenized and updated to the latest Apache CXF version by Guillaume.
It is available in the list of downloads or through maven2 repository: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/ow2/easybeans/extensions/ow2-easybeans-cxf/1.0.0.RC3/

More details on EasyBeans/CXF can be found on the wiki page: http://wiki.easybeans.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/JAXWS

Persistence
Persistence Providers have been updated to their latest versions.

Migration

Configuration:
Some hardcoded values are now available through the easybeans.xml configuration file.

For example, within JOnAS 4.x the xml configuration will use the following <config> element:

<easybeans xmlns="http://org.ow2.easybeans.server">

<!-- No infinite loop (daemon managed by JOnAS): wait="false"
Enable MBeans: mbeans="true"
Disable the naming: naming="false"
Use JOnAS JACC provider and not EasyBeans JACC: jacc="false"
Use EasyBeans file monitoring to detect archives: scanning="true"
Using JOnAS JMX Connector: connector="false"
Enable Deployer and J2EEServer MBeans: deployer="true" & j2eeserver="true"
>
<config
wait="false"
mbeans="true"
naming="false"
jacc="false"
scanning="true"
connector="false"
deployer="true"
j2eeserver="true" />
....
</easybeans>

While for Tomcat/Jetty the xml configuration will use the following <config> element:

<easybeans xmlns="http://org.ow2.easybeans.server">

<! No infinite loop (daemon managed by WebContainer): wait="false"
Enable MBeans: mbeans="true"
No EasyBeans naming, use WebContainer naming: naming="false"
Use EasyBeans JACC provider: jacc="true"
Use EasyBeans file monitoring to detect archives: scanning="true"
Use EasyBeans JMX Connector: connector="true"
Enable Deployer and J2EEServer MBeans: deployer="true" & j2eeserver="true"
-->
<config
wait="false"
mbeans="true"
naming="false"
jacc="true"
scanning="true"
connector="true"
deployer="true"
j2eeserver="true" />
...
</easybeans>

Mapping:
The xml mapping file describing the class/attributes to set when analyzing the of the configuration file of EasyBeans is now using a schema available at http://easybeans.ow2.org/xml/ns/xmlconfig/xmlconfig-mapping_1_0.xsd. If other mapping files are used, they need to be updated with this schema. Mapping files are starting with the following header:
<xmlconfig-mapping xmlns="http://easybeans.ow2.org/xml/ns/xmlconfig"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

xsi:schemaLocation="http://easybeans.ow2.org/xml/ns/xmlconfig

http://easybeans.ow2.org/xml/ns/xmlconfig/xmlconfig-mapping_1_0.xsd">

Smart Bootstrap
In addition to the Smart Factory, a Smart Bootstrap has been provided to launch a client by downloading core classes from the server side.

Mailing list

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

Release Notes:

Bug

• (EZB-219)

  • Error during build EasyBeans at JVM 1.6

• (EZB-220)

  • Problem with security propagation on JOnAS 5.0.0 (not 4.x)

• (EZB-226)

  • NPE in Mail component

• (EZB-229)

  • Resources with type javax.resource.cci.ConnectionFactory are not
  injected in EJB3

• (EZB-238)

  • @HandleChain for web services annotated is not used

Improvement

• (EZB-228)

  • login module to set EB SecurityContext with a given Subject

• (EZB-230)

  • Refactor Java EE glue in its own package

• (EZB-233)

  • URLMapper and EasyBeansTransportFactory double usage

• (EZB-234)

  • Allow to specify specific DD in EasyBeans ant tasks

New Feature

• (EZB-218)

  • Ability to setup EJB pool size in ejb Deployement Descritptor, and
  monitor these pool

Task

• (EZB-59)

  • Support for message-driven element in the deployment descriptor.

• (EZB-216)

  • Merge the branch EZBcluster with the trunk

• (EZB-222)

  • Use of mappedName in @EJB annotation

• (EZB-224)

  • Cmi 2.0-RC4

• (EZB-225)

  • Library ow2-util 1.0.3

• (EZB-231)

  • Refactor easybeans-cxf module to use maven

• (EZB-232)

  • Rename easybeans-cxf packages from org.objectweb. to org.ow2.

• (EZB-235)

  • Add example for pool configuration

• (EZB-237)

  • Provide a SmartBootstrap

• (EZB-239)

  • Update CXF to version 2.0.4-incubator

• (EZB-240)

  • Upgrade to OpenJPA 1.0.2

• (EZB-241)

  • Upgrade to Toplink Essentials 2.1-23

• (EZB-243)

  • Allow to set WorkManager settings in Joram component

• (EZB-244)

  • Upgrade to Hibernate 3.2.6.ga

Best Regards,

Florent

Dec 14, 2007: 1.0 RC2 available

Hello,

A new release candidate (1.0.0 RC2) of the OW2 EasyBeans product (EJB 3 container) has been released. This version is integrated in the OW2 JOnAS 5.0 application server.

EasyBeans can be embedded in JOnAS, Apache Tomcat application server, Jetty application server and is also provided as OSGi Bundles. EasyBeans is now bundled with either Hibernate Entity Manager, Apache OpenJPA or TopLink Essentials as persistence provider.

Here are the guides: Getting started with JOnAS 4.x (tested with 4.7.8 and 4.8.6) Getting started with Tomcat 5.5.x and 6.0.x (tested with 5.5.25 and 6.0.14) Getting started with Jetty 6.1.x (tested with 6.1.5) Getting started with the EasyBeans OSGi bundles

EasyBeans is also working in standalone mode (Uberjar packages are now available since this release !)

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

The Release Notes are available online at : http://www.easybeans.net/xwiki/bin/view/News/Release1_0_RC2

Download A new EasyBeans version is out and is available in the Downloads section.

Download the Release Candidate 2 version Now ! New features The Release Candidate 2 release is now bundled with three different persistence providers (three packages).

• Hibernate EntityManager
• Apache OpenJPA
• TopLink Essentials

OSGi: BundleContext can be injected into EJB3 beans by using @org.ow2.easybeans.osgi.annotation.OSGiResource annotation

Example: