| Title: October2008 |
| The user base has grown significantly. The primary areas seem to be people |
| replacing the JBoss Embedded platform with OpenEJB as an embedded container |
| for either testing or Swing/GUI work and people using OpenEJB in Tomcat for |
| web work. There have also been some reports of very large applications |
| getting ported to OpenEJB. External signs of adoption have increased as |
| well with some OpenEJB users popping up in other communities such as Maven |
| asking for OpenEJB focused improvements in their tools, a half dozen or so |
| very favorable blog entries from people outside the project and a recent |
| thread on TheServerSide where many users expressed they were considering |
| leaving Spring for OpenEJB/Tomcat or Glassfish. |
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| Development on the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin continues strong. The |
| still-in-development Eclipse plugin is attracting some interest and has |
| already received some contributions from at least two different |
| individuals. Thanks goes out to Jonathan Gallimore for not succumbing to |
| post-commit-status burnout as so many people do when first getting commit. |
| The dedication is noted. Other larger areas of development have been a |
| total overhaul of the client/server aspect of OpenEJB, first in the request |
| speed and throughput and secondly in request failover and retry. This had |
| been a weak area for the project and these improvements will likely |
| increase the number of people using the standalone version of OpenEJB |
| (current major areas of use are embedded and Tomcat). Some experimental |
| work on integrating OpenEJB with Spring has been done which when completed |
| should prove to be a compelling feature. |
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| Support for EJB 3.1 is underway. Full support for the proposed Singleton |
| bean type has been added, which to our knowledge is the only implementation |
| in the market currently. This should drive some EJB 3.1 early adopters to |
| the project and serve as a good tool for getting feedback for the EJB 3.1 |
| spec. |
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| The OpenEJB 3.1 release is up for a vote and if all goes well will be final |
| in a few days. It's been a bit too long since our last release in April. |
| Hopefully after 3.1 is released we can get back into the frequent release |
| rhythm we had throughout the betas and up until 3.0 final. |
