JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5
for use with JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0
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Abstract
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0 that may not be currently available in the product manuals. You should read these Release Notes in their entirety before installing JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Features introduced with JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0
- 2.1. The Native Package
- 2.2. JBoss Web Services
- 2.3. Hibernate
- 2.4. PicketLink Federation
- 2.5. Features introduced in previous releases
- 2.6. Component Versions
- 2.7. Installation Notes
- 2.8. Product Support
- 2.9. Documentation
- 2.10. Technology Previews
- 2.11. Excluded, Removed and Deprecated Items
- 2.12. Issues fixed in this release
- 2.13. Known Issues with this release
- A. Revision History
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0. New features, issues fixed in this release, and other known issues are addressed here.
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is a core component of JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat's application server product strategy to deliver targeted platforms that support the variety of common Java application workloads in today's IT enterprise. As part of JBoss Open Choice, Red Hat provides three Java application server solutions:
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
- The Enterprise Application Platform is for highly transactional applications that utilize the full Java Enterprise Edition (EE) programming approach. It leverages the market leading JBoss Application Server and adds enterprise features for clustering, caching, messaging, transactions, and a full web services stack
- JBoss Enterprise Web Platform
- The Enterprise Web Platform is for mid-size workloads, focusing on light and rich Java applications. Web Platform is a slimmed down profile of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Web Platform builds upon the Java EE Web Profile concept to provide a lightweight version of the popular JBoss Application Server, while still providing enterprise features for clustering, caching, and simple web services.
- JBoss Enterprise Web Server
- The Enterprise Web Server is for simple web applications and the lightest Java workloads, JBoss Enterprise Web Server provides enterprises with a stable, long-term enterprise product support lifecycle for Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat and all of the common connectors used in between.
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0 is a lighter and slimmer version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
By integrating best-of-breed open source frameworks such as JBoss Seam, Hibernate, CXF Web Services, and JBoss Cache, the Platform takes advantage of innovations in the open source community. As well, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform is fully tested and supported by Red Hat, and is certified to work on many leading enterprise hardware and software products.
About this release
JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0 is a minor release. Minor releases aggregate the contents of prior patches and Cumulative Patches (CPs), and may add additional new functionality. Subsequent patches and Cumulative Patches assume the installation of the minor update that preceded them. During the life cycle of a product's major version, Red Hat makes commercially reasonable efforts to maintain API-level compatibility across all minor releases and asynchronous patches, ensuring that, for example, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0 maintains API-level compatibility with JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0.0, the initial release of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5. Possible exceptions to this rule include fixes addressing critical security issues.
With the release of JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.0.x customers should update to JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.0.
Refer to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Product Update and Support Policy for further information.