The Apache OpenEJB team is excited to announce the release of OpenEJB 3.0 final. The 3.0 release includes several refinements over beta 2 and overall higher quality of service. Thanks to all the wonderful feedback we received in the beta releases, the OpenEJB 3.0 has grown into quite a mature and robust codebase. We truly appreciate all the users who have supported us since the launch of the 3.0 codebase and wish to share our gratitude in helping to make OpenEJB the best its ever been....

OpenEJB 3.0 beta 2 is up and ready for download! New features in this release include JAX-RPC support via CXF, Tomcat 5.5 support, and support for using OpenEJB as an OSGi bundle. Overall this release is packed with new improvements notably around usability, validation, and configuration. Definitely a must try. Unless any major issues are discovered it will likely be the last beta and 3.0 final will be right around the corner!

We are launching a new initiative to create some really simple and neat EJB3 examples similar to the excellent examples that Tomcat ships which show people how to write Servlets and JSPs. With these examples people will not only be able to use OpenEJB 3 very easily, but moreover they will be one of the definitive places to learn EJB3. Period.

We've already received a couple volunteers, but there's more than enough to go around, so we're sending out the word....