JOnAS 5.3.0 Milestone 3 released

     Hi JOnAS users,

We're very pleased to announce the general availability of a new 
milestone of JOnAS 5.3 : 5.3.0 M3 
<http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/News/JOnAS_5_3_0_M3>.
New features on this release are focusing OSGi features.
Now, you can configure your OSGi components by dropping a configadmin 
file in JONAS_BASE/deploy. (see http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429)
Also, OSGi JDBC Factories are now provided 
(http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442). Enable "dbm" service and all 
JDBC drivers that are found will have an OSGi JDBC Factory service 
registered. Then you can create Datasources with this service. And the 
JTA is also provided as an OSGi service. (UserTransaction, 
TransactionManager and TransactionSynchronizationRegistry are provided)

There are also plenty of bug fixes and components upgrades to provide 
better security, more performances and an always up to date JOnAS 
experience.

Two profiles for JOnAS 5.3.0 M3 are available for download 
<http://forge.ow2.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5&release_id=4615>:

    * JOnAS Full-profile which is a full-blown Java EE Application
      Server : ( Java Web Start Installer
      <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jnlp>
      / Java Offline Installer
      <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-installer.jar>
      / Zip
      <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip>
      / Tgz
      <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/jonas-full-5.3.0-M3-bin.tar.gz>
      )
    * 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-5.3.0-M3-bin.zip>
      / Tgz
      <http://download.forge.objectweb.org/jonas/micro-jonas-5.3.0-M3-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-list 
<http://wiki.jonas.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Lists>

/_Issues fixed for JOnAS 5.3.0 M3_/


            Bug

        * (JONAS-432 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-432>) - Multiple
          OSGiContext issue
        * (JONAS-437 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-437>) - Access
          denied to http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/sun-jaxws


            Improvement


        * (JONAS-380 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-380>) - Upgrade
          Spring to version 3
        * (JONAS-445 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-445>) - Upgrade
          to CXF 2.3.5


            New Feature

        * (JONAS-429 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-429>) - Support
          ConfigAdmin descriptors in deployment system
        * (JONAS-434 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-434>) - Export
          JTA as OSGi enteprise service
        * (JONAS-442 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-442>) - Add
          support for OSGi JDBC DataSourceFactory


            Task

        * (JONAS-435 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-435>) - Update
          Apache Tomcat to 7.0.14
        * (JONAS-439 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-439>) - Update
          Jetty8 to 8.0.0 M3 version
        * (JONAS-441 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-441>) - Upgrade
          OW2 Bundles to 1.0.29
        *

        * (JONAS-450 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-450>) - Update
          OW2 spec to 1.0.9
        * (JONAS-451 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-451>) - Update
          OW2 Util to 1.0.31
        * (JONAS-454 <http://jira.ow2.org/browse/JONAS-454>) - Update
          JOnAS documentation to 5.3.0 M3

Best Regards,

Florent