The Apache OpenEJB community is proud to release OpenEJB 3.1. This release contains significant enhancements, improvements, new functionality and allows developers to get early access to some key parts of EJB 3.1. In addition to the embeddable EJB container and Collapsed EAR (ejbs in .war files) functionality which have been long standing OpenEJB features, now slated for EJB 3.1, this release contains full support for the new EJB 3.1 Singleton Session bean type....

The Apache OpenEJB team is excited to announce the release of OpenEJB 3.0 final. The 3.0 release includes several refinements over beta 2 and overall higher quality of service. Thanks to all the wonderful feedback we received in the beta releases, the OpenEJB 3.0 has grown into quite a mature and robust codebase. We truly appreciate all the users who have supported us since the launch of the 3.0 codebase and wish to share our gratitude in helping to make OpenEJB the best its ever been....

We are launching a new initiative to create some really simple and neat EJB3 examples similar to the excellent examples that Tomcat ships which show people how to write Servlets and JSPs. With these examples people will not only be able to use OpenEJB 3 very easily, but moreover they will be one of the definitive places to learn EJB3. Period.

We've already received a couple volunteers, but there's more than enough to go around, so we're sending out the word....