OpenEJB 1.0 Final

• Release Date: February 26th, 2006
• EJB 1.1 support
• EJB 2.0 Local Interface support

Download

• Binary: openejb-1.0 {zip , tar.gz}
• Source: openejb-1.0-src {zip , tar.gz}

Tested On

	Windows XP (JDK 1.4)	Windows XP (JDK 1.5)	Linux (JDK 1.4)	Linux (JDK 1.5)	Mac OSX (JDK 1.4)	Mac OSX (JDK 1.5)
Embedded
Standalone
Tomcat 4.1.x (Global Mode)
Tomcat 4.1.x (Webapp Mode)
Tomcat 5.0.x (Global Mode)
Tomcat 5.0.x (Webapp Mode)
Tomcat 5.5.x (Global Mode)
Tomcat 5.5.x (Webapp Mode)

New Features

Remote Server supports EJB invocations over HTTP

Having a hard time with those pesky firewalls? Our Remote Server now has it's own HTTP front end which supports a stripped-down version of HTTP specifically for supporting our EJB protocol. Remote invocations from EJB Clients can now be layered over HTTP and serviced by our standalone EJB Server.

Tomcat Integration supports Remote EJB Clients

No extra ports necesarry. Simply point your EJB client to the URL of the LoaderSerlvet and go! All HTTP requests to the LoaderServlet will be sent into the embedded OpenEJB container. Combine this with the Collapsed EAR approach to embedding OpenEJB and you get a single webapp containing it's own private EJBs and OpenEJB container which can now support it's own remote java clients as well as web browsers. Or combine this with traditional style of embedding OpenEJB into the root of Tomcat at a global level and turn your Tomcat server into a no holds-barred EJB server. If you want no remoting at all, simply remove the LoaderServet's serlvet-mapping and the door is closed.

Better command line support

OpenEJB and it's tools can now be executed via an executable jar. Simply 'java -jar openejb-core-1.0.jar start' and the server will start. Or 'java -jar openejb-core-1.0.jar deploy' to deploy an EJB application. This makes it far easier to use OpenEJB in scripts and third party tools like IDEs. You can even add your own custom commands to the command line via any class with a static main method and a properties file in the classpath at META-INF/org.openejb.cli/mycommand.

Xinet.d style protocol configuration

Protocols in OpenEJB are a pluggable, snap-in, style concept. Anything that consumes data on a socket is wrapped with a standard set of xinet.d like services for ip and port management, connection pooling, host-based authorization and more. Want to disable a protocol and prevent it from starting? Want to change it's port? Want to limit the max number of concurrent connections or restrict access to clients on specific IP addresses? Just crack open that protocol's properties files and edit away.

EJB 2.0 Local interface support

OpenEJB now has support for EJB 2.0 Local Interfaces. This is very nice for when OpenEJB is combined with Tomcat or embedded in another application where Remote interfaces are not always needed. See the "Moviefun" example in the source or binary distributions for how to use them. Note that no other EJB 2.0 features (such as CMP 2 or MDBs)
are supported in the OpenEJB 1.x codebase.

Collapsed EAR support

Collapsed EARs are an OpenEJB invention allowing you to combine your ejbs and servlets in the same archive and classloader. This is essentially a new way to embed OpenEJB into Tomcat so that OpenEJB and your EJBs are loaded only into your webapp. Combine this with an embedded database and you have a complete mini-J2EE environment that can be hosted in your Tomcat webapp space.

See the "Moviefun" example in the distribution which will be online for a short while here:

http://demo1.openejb.org/moviefun

(visit http://demo1.openejb.org/moviefun/setup.jsp to reset)

Unpacked EJB Jar support

It is now possible to deploy and run EJB apps that are not in a *.jar archive. For example, for ejb app located at:

/home/jsmith/myejbapp/META-INF/ejb-jar.xml

Simply add a Deployments declaration to the openejb.conf like the following:

<Deployment dir="/home/jsmith/myejbapp" />

Auto Deploy for Simple Apps

In OpenEJB 1.0 beta1, the use of openejb-jar.xml is not required for ejb-jar.xml files that do not contain CMP EntityBeans or ejbs with multiple datasource references.

Mac OSX Users

The speed of the Remote Server has been improved tremendously to compensate for differing default parameters for TCP Socket creation and closing in the Mac OSX Java VM. This makes sequential calls from a Remote Client to the Server several times faster.

Upgrade Notes

CMP config change

In 0.9.2 and before, the JDO database was using the private JNDI namespace of the very first CMP accessed to grab a datasource and hold onto it for use on all requests into the CMP container. This was configured with something like this:

<database name="Global_TX_Database" engine="instantdb">
       <jndi name="java:comp/env/jdbc/basic/entityDatabase" />
       <mapping href="conf/default.cmp_mapping.xml" />
   </database>

This was just wrong. We've switched it so that the "jndi" tag of a Castor database.xml file can be set directly to the global JNDI name of a Connector element declared in an openejb.conf file.

<database name="Global_TX_Database" engine="instantdb">
       <jndi name="java:openejb/connector/Default JDBC Database" />
       <mapping href="conf/default.cmp_mapping.xml" />
   </database>

This is still not so optimal as we do not want to people using OpenEJB's internal jndi and encourage people to become dependent on it. Newer releases of Castor allow for a completely programmatic way to configure a JDO database. In future releases, these global and local database files will go away all together! You will only need to specify your mapping.xml and will be able to pack it in your ejb jar.

Changelog

1.0

jira.codehaus.org (20 issues)
Key	Summary
OPENEJB-140	Server service "bind" option was ignored
OPENEJB-138	Upgrade to Castor 1.0
OPENEJB-131	Automated Tomcat testing on Windows
OPENEJB-130	Automated Tomcat testing on Mac OSX and Linux
OPENEJB-129	EJBd over Servlet -- ejb invocations over http protocol via a servlet
OPENEJB-128	EJBd over HTTP -- ejb invocations over http protocol
OPENEJB-73	OpenEJB 1.0 Does Not Deploy To Tomcat 5.5
OPENEJB-71	Per-Instance Tomcat Integration Has Fails When Loading EJBs
OPENEJB-70	After rebuild, openejb-loader.jar is empty which leads to ClassNotFoundExceptions on LocalInitialContextFactory class
OPENEJB-68	Recent classloader changes break remote server
OPENEJB-67	Moviefun Example Works On Windows
OPENEJB-66	System properties were ignored in LocalInitialContextFactory and LoaderServlet
OPENEJB-65	Log the location of the openejb.home and openejb.base
OPENEJB-64	cannot find cmp.or-mapping.xml
OPENEJB-62	Include Webadmin in the distro
OPENEJB-61	Windows: Cannot find the ejb-jar.xml
OPENEJB-60	openejb-tests.bat doesn't handle no arguments passed on Windows
OPENEJB-59	Help functionality for openejb-tests looks for nonexistent file
OPENEJB-58	Upgrade Castor Support From 0.9.5.3 to 0.9.9.0
OPENEJB-49	Put linefeeds (aka new lines) in generated openejb-jar.xml files

1.0 Beta 1

jira.codehaus.org (18 issues)
Key	Summary
OPENEJB-57	OpenEJB does not work as embedded container in JUnit test under Eclipse
OPENEJB-56	Auto Deploy for Simple Apps
OPENEJB-55	Collapsed EAR support
OPENEJB-54	EJB 2.0 Local Interface support
OPENEJB-50	Unpacked ejb-jar support
OPENEJB-46	Sample webapp demonstrating OpenEJB/Tomcat Webapp integration
OPENEJB-42	Per webapp Tomcat support breaks global Tomcat support
OPENEJB-41	JSP -> EJB support broken for Tomcat 4.x integration
OPENEJB-39	Tomcat webapp index.jsp should be an index.html file
OPENEJB-33	Enable tcp no delay on sockets created by remote server and client
OPENEJB-32	(Slightly) better command line options handling
OPENEJB-31	log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (OpenEJB)
OPENEJB-28	Deploy tool fails with nullpointer
OPENEJB-26	Remove references to sf.net in text and help files
OPENEJB-25	Put readme and license in distro
OPENEJB-18	props.put("openejb.home", ...) doesn't work for lookup conf file
OPENEJB-17	StandardClassLoader.addRepository error
OPENEJB-9	unable to deploy jar if ejb-jar.xml references remote server