[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tuscany/SCA 2.0 M5 released

[kelvin goodson <ke...@apache.org>]

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the fifth milestone
release of the Tuscany SCA 2.0 project.

Apache Tuscany/SCA provides a runtime environment based on Service
Component Architecture (SCA), which is a set of OASIS specifications
aimed at simplifying SOA application development. The main features of
this fifth 2.0 milestone release are

- Passes the OASIS conformance test suite for the SCA Assembly, SCA-J
CAA and SCA-J CI Specifications!
- Passes OSGI remote service SCA config type conformance test suite
- New Tuscany specific support for REST/JAXRS
- Started improving the layout of the samples to separate
contributions from launchers
- Further improvements to the distributed SCA domain support
- Improved support for the SCAClient in distributed scenarios
- Dropped support for JDK 5
- Numerous other bug fixes and improvements

See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for more details about the
release, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-2x-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to:

http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code,
testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is
always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!