[ANN] Released OpenEngSB Framework 2.5.0

[Andreas Pieber]

The OpenEngSB team is pleased to announce the next release of the
OpenEngSB Framework: Version 2.5.0

The fifth feature release of the openengsb framework contains, besides
32 bug fixes from the 2.4.x line, 6 new features, 5 deprecations and
15 improvements. First of all there's a new, better EDB handling via
services available in 2.5.x which depricates the current EDB handling;
next, by the removal of our object DB the IgnoreInQuery annotation is
no longer required; because of some enhancements to the communictation
it's no longer required to use the Event#getType method. Version 2.5.x
allows the creation of workflows via files now; a general persistence
interface; a marshling template creation UI and the configuration of
the openwire and stomp ports via configuration files. Improvements had
been done to the EDB, EKB, OpenEngSBModels, README, OpenEngSB core
service; also we've corrected our source release to look more like an
apache one. Looking at the most important libraries the framework
includes new versions of Google Guava (11.0.1), Apache CXF (2.5.3),
Paxexam Karaf (0.5.3), OPS4J Pax Exam (2.3.1), Apache Felix Gogo
(0.10.0), Apache Felix Fileinstall (3.2.2), Apache Karaf (2.2.7),
OPS4J Pax Wicket (0.7.8), Apache Wicket (1.4.20), Apache OpenJPA
(2.2.0 and the Springframework (3.0.7).

http://openengsb.org/

The release is available in binary
(http://uk1.maven.org/maven2/org/openengsb/framework/openengsb-framework/2.5.0/openengsb-framework-2.5.0.zip),
source (http://uk1.maven.org/maven2/org/openengsb/framework/openengsb-framework/2.5.0/openengsb-framework-2.5.0-src.zip)
and Maven:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.openengsb.framework</groupId>
<artifactId>openengsb-framework</artifactId>
<version>2.5.0</version>
<packaging>zip</packaging>
</dependency>

There are 80 resolved issues included in this release, as such we've
documented them on the 2.5.0 release notes page:

http://openengsb.org/index/download/openengsb-framework/v2.5.0

Enjoy!

-The OpenEngSB team