The Apache TomEE community is proud to announce the release of Apache TomEE 7.0.0-M1, which is based on Apache Tomcat 8.0.30 and is our first milestone release towards EE7. We know this has been a long time coming, so we thank you for your patience and support.
Please feel free to check out and contribute to the developer branch - We are always interested in any help from the community that we can get.
This version is not certified and is provided to the community as a milestone preview of the current development version. It is however an extremly well tested version. So please do test your applications and give us your feedback.
The Apache TomEE 7.0.0-M1 release files can be downloaded from here:
http://tomee.apache.org/download/tomee-7.0.0-M1.html
###Update Maven POM Files - The OpenEJB version and groupId have been aligned
Simply update your existing Maven JavaEE-API, OpenEJB and or TomEE pom.xml entries to point to the latest versions:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId> <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId> <version>7.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId> <artifactId>openejb-core</artifactId> <version>7.0.0-M1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tomee</groupId> <artifactId>tomee</artifactId> <version>7.0.0-M1</version> </dependency>
A complete Changelog can be viewed here:
tomee-7.0.0-M1-release-notes.html
Please feel free to jump in feet first and get started with TomEE. You will nearly always find someone to help you on one of our support channels.