[ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.8 CDI container

[Thomas Andraschko <ta...@apache.org>]

 It’s a great pleasure to announce the release of Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.8

Apache OpenWebBeans-2.x is a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency
Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-2.0 specification (JavaEE 8).

This is a maintenance release targeting the new CDI 2.0 specification!
CDI is a JavaEE standard specification (JSR-365) but fully available under
Apache License v2.0.
http://cdi-spec.org/
https://docs.jboss.org/cdi/spec/2.0/cdi-spec.html

OpenWebBeans is modularly built and can be used either in pure Java SE, in
a Servlet Container like e.g. Tomcat or in fully fledged JavaEE containers.
Our core is only 700kByte and thus brings full JavaEE-8 compatibility at a
smaller size of most so called ‚micro solutions‘.

Distribution packages can be downloaded via
https://openwebbeans.apache.org/download.html

The release is also available via maven
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/openwebbeans/


We also include an installer scripts in our binary distribution which can
be used as easy as:

$> unzip openwebbeans-distribution-2.0.8-binary.zip
$> cd openwebbeans-distribution-2.0.8
$> ./install_owb_tomcat7.bat /opt/your/apache-tomcat-9.x.x

(works with Apache Tomcat7 and 8, 8.5 and 9)

OpenWebBeans-2.0.x is included in Apache Meecrowave-1.2.x and the upcoming
Apache TomEE-8.x releases.

Please also visit our homepage http://openwebbeans.apache.org and contact
us on our mailing lists.

have fun,
The Apache OpenWebBeans Team

The following tickets got resolved:

Bug
    [OWB-1257] - Conditional exclusion of beans in beans.xml does not honor
system property
    [OWB-1263] - Generic observers not called correctly
    [OWB-1264] - Observers method throws NoClassDefFoundError for optional
classes
    [OWB-1269] - TomcatSecurityService principal is not the contextual one
out of request scope beans

Improvement
    [OWB-1261] - Upgrade ASM to version 7
    [OWB-1265] - [perf] cache AnnotationManager#getRepeatableMethod
    [OWB-1266] - [perf] InjectionResolver cache can be activated earlier

Task
    [OWB-1268] - Upgrade to xbean 4.12