[wildfly-dev] Announcing WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha1!

[Jason Greene]

Ah damn't I knew I was forgetting something important :(

Sorry!

On May 21, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:

> And JAX-RS 2.0....
> 
> On 5/21/2013 6:51 PM, Jason Greene wrote:
>> I am happy to formally announce the availability of the first release of WildFly, 8.0.0.Alpha1. The code name is appropriately "WildFly".
>> 
>> The release is available for download here:
>> 
>> http://wildfly.org/download
>> 
>> As recently announced, this is the first in a series of iterative releases that will be following a monthly cadence, with a goal for delivery in November.
>> 
>> Some notable updates include
>> - Themes, icons, maven gavs, etc now all say WildFly
>> - Switched default web container to Undertow
>>   (a new non-blocking high-performance web server)
>> - Significant performance improvements and related features in JPA
>> - A number of Java EE7 APIs previewed including:
>>   * JSR-503 (JSON-P)
>>   * Servlet 3.1
>>   * JSF 2.2
>>   * JSR-356 (Web Sockets)
>>   * Common Annotations 1.2
>>   * CDI 1.1
>> - Support for HTTP tunneling the remote management protocols and JMX
>>   (A step towards our one-port profile planned for 8)
>> - Database backed EJB Timers
>> - CDI beans now allowed in static modules
>> - Switched to JDK7 (Java EE7 requires)
>> - Support for coarse deployment ordering dependencies
>> - Deployment descriptor overrides
>> - EC2 discovery support for domain mode using S3
>> - Dropped CMP, JAXR, JSR-88, and JAX-RPC Support (no longer in Java EE)
>> - Major bundled third-party Updates
>>   * Infinispan 5.2.5.Final
>>   * HornetQ 2.3.0.Final
>>   * Hibernate 4.2.0.Final
>>   * Narayana 5.0.0.M2
>>   * JBossWS-CXF 4.2.0.Beta1
>> 
>> The full list of 314 resolves issues is available here:
>> https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12313721&version=12321680
>> 
>> As a reminder the main goals that WildFly 8 is targeting are:
>> 
>> - Java EE7
>> - Patching
>> - Domain Management Role Based Access Control
>> - Single Network Port profile
>> - Runtime performance improvements
>> 
>> If you would like to get involved, come and see us in the #wildfly channel on irc.freenode.org.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Jason T. Greene
>> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>> 
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Jason T. Greene
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JBoss, a division of Red Hat