Author: dblevins
Date: Mon Oct 8 17:53:43 2012
New Revision: 1395694
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1395694&view=rev
Log:
Attempt at a cleanup of the release announcement text
Modified:
openejb/site/trunk/content/tomee-1.5.0.mdtext
Modified: openejb/site/trunk/content/tomee-1.5.0.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openejb/site/trunk/content/tomee-1.5.0.mdtext?rev=1395694&r1=1395693&r2=1395694&view=diff
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--- openejb/site/trunk/content/tomee-1.5.0.mdtext (original)
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-Apache TomEE 1.5 Final Released!
-================================
+# Apache TomEE 1.5 Released!
-We are pleased to announce the release of Apache TomEE 1.5.0. Itâs been
quite a long time since the first announcement.
-Weâve gotten a lot of feedback and spent a lot of time polishing that new
release without forgetting to bring again so many features.
+We are excited to announce the release of [Apache TomEE
1.5](http://tomee.apache.org/downloads.html). The volume of
+feedback on the 1.0.0 Final drove such an impressive number of fixes and
features into TomEE that the release number
+has been updated to reflect [the changes](tomee-1.5.0-release-notes.html).
+
+The team is proud to announce certification of a new Apache TomEE stack that
includes the Web Profile plus JAX-RS for
+RESTful Web Services. The new 'TomEE JAXRS' distribution shows TomEE's
commitment to progressing its certification
+efforts beyond the Web Profile and is a great alternative to the TomEE Plus
distribution. See the
+[comparison](http://tomee.apache.org/comparison.html) for a view of all Apache
TomEE distributions.
+
+Another great feature is the extended support for database connection pools.
In addition to the previously
+supported Apache Commons-DBCP, the 1.5 release adds transaction support to the
native Apache Tomcat and BoneCP
+connection pools. The two additional pools offer great alternatives to
applications under heavy load. JMX
+instrumentation and statistics have also been added generically to all pools
and provide a great level of
+monitoring and management.
+
+Other major features include deploy-time enhancement for JPA Entities via
OpenJPA, support including JPA providers in webapps,
+ability to mock and inject mocks in unit tests and a powerful new [TomEE Maven
Plugin](tomee-maven-plugin.html) which can
+provision servers, install libraries, deploy webapps and more.
-While still supporting the strict Java EE 6 â Web Profile 1.0, this new
release enables to add JAX-RS thanks to a specific distribution. To make things
clear, three TomEE distributions are at your disposal now:
-1. Web Profile (default),
-1. JAX-RS,
-1. Plus.
-
-Any doubt about what distribution we provide and what they contain? Go to the
comparison page where all is explained!
-
-**[JL] TODO, check il we can speak about the tck and certification. Add the
link to http://tomee.apache.org/comparison.html ???**
-
-If you didnât get the right distribution, no worries, Apache TomEE is still
tight but powerful, you can download another package quickly and make it start
even quicker. Even stronger, Apache TomEE can detect some cases and fires a
warning advising you to move to another distribution supporting the features
you need.
-
-Another great feature is the extended support for database connection pools.
Historically, weâve supported Apache Commons-DBCP and we will still do it.
But we are proud to support the native Apache Tomcat connection pool. Forked
from Apache Commons-DBCP, it has been reworked to become lighter and more
responsive under heavy load. It also pushishes useful statistics under JMX.
Because Apache TomEE community is open to any useful request, we also support
BoneCP out of the box.
-
-In this release, the community reworked the Arquillian support, to make it
even better. No more reason to skip developping test and testing your
application.
-
-**[JM] give some details here?**
-
-In the same area, weâve decided to provide users with a featureful Maven
plugin. The tomee-maven-plugin is now available to get the most from Apache
TomEE. Indeed, this plugin can make help you save a lot of time. Itâs easy to
use and to configure. It allows to choose the TomEE version of course, but also
the distribution you wish (plus, jaxrs, or default for the web profile one).
You can of course, start/stop Apache TomEE, but you can also deploy/undeploy an
archive or check the list of EJBs and edpoints currently deployed.
-
-**[JL] Add a link to the documentation online**
-
-The release 1.5.0 is clearly cloud ready. We went a step forward to cloud
deployements. The provisionning package, the remote deployer is are now able to
deploy against a single TomEE instance, as well as a cluster of nodes. To make
things easier configuration files support place holders.
-
-Weâd like to thank again everyone who gave feedback and contibuted to
improve Apache TomEE days after days.
-
-Finally, this release got a lot of bug fixes and enhancements. More details
are available on the donwload page with release notes.
-
-**[JL] TODO, update the page with download link and publish openejb+tomee
release notes from JIRA**
-
-Canât wait! The download page is up to date and binaries have been freshly
updated.
-
-
-**[JL] If needed, we have also the deploy time unhencement for OpenJPA, we
support other JPA providers in webapps, we can mock and inject mocks in unit
tests, IntelliJ Idea support (not so good for the moment).**
+Weâd like to thank everyone who gave feedback and contibuted to improve
Apache TomEE on a daily basis!
