Monday, February 28, 2011

Apache Karaf 2.2.0 Released!

The Karaf team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache Karaf 2.2.0.

Apache Karaf is a small OSGi based runtime which provides a lightweight container onto which various components and applications can be deployed.
It provides out of the box the following features:

  • Hot deploy of components (bundles, jars, xml, war, ear, eba, ...), 
  • Dynamic configuration of the services trough properties files (managed into the console), 
  • Unify logging api (JDK 1.4, JCL, SLF4J, Avalon, Tomcat, OSGi), 
  • Facilitate the packaging and deployment of components (features, karaf archives, ...), 
  • Native OS integration 
  • Extensible Shell console 
  • Remote access 
  • Managing instances 
  • Supports the latest OSGi 4.2 containers: Apache Felix Framework 3.0 and Eclipse Equinox 3.6
  • Provide JAAS connectors (LDAP, JDBC, PropertiesFile) 
  • Containers available : Spring, Blueprint, JPA, Transaction, Web, JNDI 

This release of Apache Karaf contains a multitude of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.  Some highlights include many new or updated commands, a LDAP JAAS module with login support, an updated feature service, a feature for Aries transaction, JPA & JNDI modules, expanded documentation, and new versions of most dependencies. The help system and manual have also undergone major updates. Please note that if you are using pax-exam with scanFeatures that you also have to upgrade pax-exam to the latest version.


For more detail please see the change log.

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