The JBoss Group has announced the releases of JBoss EJB 3.0 RC1. "We are getting closer to offering a professionally supportable release of EJB 3.0 with JBoss EJB 3.0 RC1. There are a lot of bugs fixed and and a lot of the features that are in the EJB 3.0 Public Draft have been implemented. We have also done even tighter integration with Hibernate 3.1. You can now inject a Hibernate Session or SessionFactory using the @PersistenceContext annotation. Hibernate Sessions will be managed and behave exactly like injected EntityManagers."

JBoss EJB 3.0 supports an embeddable version that can be run outside of the application server in standalone applications, junit tests, Tomcat, or even other non-jboss application servers.

Supported Features:

   * Local JNDI
   * Transaction Manager
   * JMS
   * Local TX datasource/connection pool
   * Stateful, Stateless, Service, Consumer, Producer, and MDBs
   * EJB 3 Persistence
   * Hibernate integration

To read more visit http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/bburke/2005/08/04/JBoss_EJB_3_0_RC1_and_Embeddab
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