Release Notes
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
for Use with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5
Isaac Rooskov
irooskov@redhat.com
Laura Bailey
Copyright © 2009 Red Hat, Inc
Abstract
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.0 that may not be currently available in the product manuals. You should read these Release Notes in their entirety before installing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.0.
1. Introduction
These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.0. New features, known problems, resources, and other current issues are addressed here.
1.1. Overview
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the next evolutionary step in open source enterprise software. It is a powerful tool for developing rich, high performance, Web 2.0 applications on a pure Java Platform.
Further, by integrating best-of-breed open source frameworks such as JBoss Seam, Hibernate, Tomcat, and JBoss Cache the Platform takes advantage of innovations in the open source community. As well, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is fully tested and supported by Red Hat, and is certified to work on many leading enterprise hardware and software products.