Release Notes 5.0.1

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5

for Use with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5

Laura Bailey

Abstract

These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.1 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 5.0.1.

1. Introduction

These release notes contain important information related to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.1. New features, issues fixed in this release, and other known 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.