OW2 JOnAS 5.2.0 RC1 released !

    Hi JOnAS users,

We're very pleased to announce the general availability of the first 
release candidate of JOnAS 5.2 : 5.2.0 RC1 
<http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_2_0_RC1>.
This release is Java EE 5 certified 
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/compatibility.jsp>

JOnAS 5.2 RC1 is on its way to Java EE 6: CDI / EJB 3.1 Singleton / JPA 
2.0 / Bean Validation / JAX-RS 1.1, Servlet 3.0 (+ updated JSP and EL) 
are supported.
There are also plenty of bug fixes and components upgrades to provides 
better security, more performances and an always up to date JOnAS 
experience.

This is the first release candidate of JOnAS 5.2.x. If no major 
complaints are raised, the 5.2.0 stable version of JOnAS will be 
released soon.

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.2.0-RC1 are available for download 
<http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4540>:

          o JOnAS Full-profile which is a full-blown Java EE Application
            Server : ( Java Web Start Installer
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.2.0-RC1-installer.jnlp>
            / Java Offline Installer
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.2.0-RC1-installer.jar>
            / Zip
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.2.0-RC1-bin.zip>
            / Tgz
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.2.0-RC1-bin.tar.gz>
            / Rpm
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.2.0-RC1_1.noarch.rpm>
            )
          o JOnAS Micro-profile which is a small bootstrap for JOnAS
            that will download services on demand (An internet
            connection is required): (Zip
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.2.0-RC1-bin.zip>
            / Tgz
            <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.2.0-RC1-bin.tar.gz>)



JIRA issue tracker instance is available at 
<http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS>http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS

Please report issues on this tracker or through the mailing lists 
<http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Lists>.

/_Issues fixed for JOnAS 5.2.0 RC1_/


            Bug

        * (JONAS-126 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-126>) - error 400
          (instead of 404) if no root web application deployed
        * (JONAS-259 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-259>) -
          (HttpService) getServletContext() returns null when called
          from GenericServlet.init()
        * (JONAS-357 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-357>) - Cannot
          deploy Jonas 5.2 M4 on Ubuntu 10.04
        * (JONAS-363 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-363>) -
          java.lang.ClassCastException raised when deploying an iPOJO/Bundle
        * (JONAS-364 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-364>) -
          Client.jar is available by default in the thread context
          classloader when the OSGi gateway is starting which may lead
          to exceptions
        * (JONAS-365 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-365>) - Problem
          with the JMX Browser Kerneos module
        * (JONAS-368 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-368>) - Missing
          requirement : javax.xml.transform.stax with jdbc mysql connector
        * (JONAS-369 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-369>) - JOnAS
          fails to create the Web Service Endpoint of an @WebService
          annotated Stateless EJB
        * (JONAS-370 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-370>) - Using
          Tomcat 7, got this following error : "Failed to unregister
          MBean with name
          (jonas:j2eeType=WebModule,name=//localhost/,J2EEApplication=none,J2EEServer=jonas)
          during component destruction"
        * (JONAS-377 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-377>) - If
          bundles are providing JDBC drivers, the JDBC deployment plan
          shouldn't be deployed before


              New Feature

        * (JONAS-358 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-358>) - Support
          WebServices in Audit system


              Task

        * (JONAS-366 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-366>) - Update
          Apache Tomcat to 7.0.11
        * (JONAS-372 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-372>) - Update
          OW2 spec to 1.0.6
        * (JONAS-373 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-373>) - Update
          OW2 Util to 1.0.29
        * (JONAS-374 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-374>) - Update
          OW2 Bundles to 1.0.27
        * (JONAS-376 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-376>) - Update
          documentation to 5.2.0-RC1


Best Regards,

Florent