[jboss-dev] Re: Holiday Gift : JBoss Application Server 5.0.0.Beta3

[Dimitris Andreadis]

A great holiday gift, indeed!

A very quick note to thank and congratulate everybody on this accomplishment. It put a limit 
to something that felt like a never ending refactoring effort and for once we can see the 
light at the end of the tunnel.

A big lesson for me has been that we definitely need to work on improving the relationship 
of AS with all the satellite jboss projects. The jboss projects need to have a person 
looking into integration and testing of their project in AS. They should take a more active 
and especially pro-active role in the AS development, participate in AS calls, testsuite 
fixing and monitoring. Otherwise, it just doesn't scale out and we end up wasting so much 
energy for doing the obvious.

So thanks again, especially to those that lost their sleep for the last couple of weeks. Go 
rest and enjoy your holidays, because coming back on January 2nd we have a lot of work to 
do. The JIRA is full of CR1 issues and there are only 5 working weeks before JBW.

Happy Xmas!
/Dimitris


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Dimitris Andreadis
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Rajesh Rajasekaran wrote:
> JBoss Application Server 5.0.0.Beta3 is out, right in time for the 
> holidays.
> 
> Download it from sourceforge
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=16942&release_id=563302 
> 
> or through the jboss.org labs page.
> http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/downloads/
> 
> This is the last Beta release of the *JBoss 5.0.x* series for the *Java 
> EE™* 5 codebase! This release completes a big round of refactorings 
> related to the
> transformation of JBossAS into a pure POJO-based server. There should be 
> no API changes from this point on as we move closer to a final release.
> 
> JBoss 5 is the next generation of the JBoss Application Server build on 
> top of the new JBoss Microcontainer. The JBoss Microcontainer is a 
> lightweight container
> for managing POJOs, their deployment, configuration and lifecycle. It is 
> a standalone project that replaces the famous JBoss JMX Microkernel of 
> the 3.x
> and 4.x JBoss series. The Microcontainer integrates nicely with the 
> JBoss framework for Aspect Oriented Programming, JBoss AOP.
> Support for JMX in JBoss 5 remains strong and MBean services written 
> against the old Microkernel are expected to work.
> 
> Detailed release notes:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=563302&group_id=22866 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Rajesh
> 
>