[jboss-dev] AS5 Beta3 status

[Dimitris Andreadis]

As a general comment, we got sidetracked last week by key people away in meetings (TBoD), 
and an imminent AS 4.2.2 release with last minutes updates/fixes and our EJB3/WS teams 
working on those.

Beta3 is already delayed, so please let's focus to add the missing pieces and stabilize the 
testsuites/tck. There are so many things going on at the same time, so please refrain from 
unnecessary refactorings and new features at this point. We need to bring the open issues 
down to a small manageable set, otherwise we'll keep fighting against moving targets.

Pending Component Updates
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http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4687 - jboss-ejb3-cache (Carlo)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4688 - jbossts 4.3.0.BETA2/jboss-integration (Jonathan)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4716 - common-core to 2.2.2.GA (Dimitris)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4744 - JBossXB 2.0.0.CR5 (Alexey)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4745 - Metadata (Scott)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4746 - MC 2.0.0.Beta5 (Scott)

Blockers/Critical
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JIRA could use some cleanup of the actual work done, see below:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS

Deployer refactoring
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3410
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3412 - client deployer/javaee5 support (Scott)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3415 - rar deployer (Weston)

Metadata Unification
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4506
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4707 - Client deployer (Scott)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-811 - new ejb3 deployers (BillB?)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-718 - appclient deployer (Carlo?)

Other
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4720 - security-domain/jca deployer - (Weston)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1026 - extended persistence context (Carlo)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1047 - waiting on ejb3 regressions fixed (Anil)

CTS 5.0
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We had a big improvement last week, then we just got hurt by a regression in the ejb/ejb3 
modules (-1.5% overall)

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-369, 663 - Jonathan
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-636 - Weston
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-654 - Scott
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-595, 651 660, - Alexey
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-547, 652, 653 - Carlo
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-593 - Jean Frederic/Carlo
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-586 - Heiko

Testsuites
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Our testsuites are in a really bad shape, so please help. There are plenty of failures to 
choose from:

http://dev45.qa.atl.jboss.com:8585/hudson/view/JBoss%20AS/job/JBoss-AS-5.0.x-TestSuite-sun15-noip/lastBuild/testReport/

There is this weird shutdown issue when run in VMWare:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4587

If you work on the AS testsuite, record your work/findings here:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4636

Discussions
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Various topics raised by Sacha
- Easier/condensed config options (a la -ds.xml)
- Downloadable prepackaged optional bundles
- MC/classloader based patch management with scripting capabilities.

Unified Metadata
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=118600&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 


Other
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The AppClient deployer is undergoing refactoring as ejb-refs resolved
from 1.4 appclients have no connection to ejb3 deployment types.
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCTS-654
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4707

For important issues I have missed and we need to track in this status  report, please send 
me an email.

Thanks
/Dimitris