Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red
Hat Application Server v1.0 Beta 1.
This is a public beta. Please feel free to forward this
announcement to anyone within or outside your organization who may
be interested in testing this beta release.
Red Hat Application Server is a key component of Red Hat’s Open
Source Architecture, a road map for the open source technologies
and capabilities Red Hat and its partners will be building in the
future — spanning the operating system, middleware, applications,
and management tools.
Red Hat Application Server includes:
- Tomcat 4.1.27, the official Reference Implementation of the
Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 technologies. - Struts 1.0.2, a framework for building web applications with
Java. - JOnAS 3.3, ObjectWeb’s J2EE implementation, with web-based
administration. - Sample JOnAS and Struts web applications.
- Supporting modules for file uploads, AJP and WARP protocols,
and JDBC drivers for MySQL.
You can find a complete package list for Red Hat Application
Server v1.0 Beta 1 at:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/RHAPS/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
This announcement includes details on obtaining the beta
software, reporting bugs, and communicating with Red Hat and other
testers via mailing lists during the beta period.
Red Hat Application Server v1.0 Beta 1 is available for testing
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for the following architectures:
- x86 (i686/Athlon)
- ia64 (Intel Itanium2)
- x86_64 (AMD64)
- ppc (IBM iSeries and pSeries)
A copy of the release notes for this beta software is attached
to this message.
Current features, packages, and naming are subject to change
before the final release.
The Red Hat Application Server development team would like to
encourage you to test this release in non-production environments
and provide feedback via the mechanisms described below. This is
pre-release quality code, and Red Hat makes no guarantees as to
performance, stability, or compatibility across beta releases.
Please run this in non-production environments only. Red Hat will
not support upgrades from one beta release to another, nor from
beta to official released products.
Red Hat Application Server v1.0 Beta 1 is available for download
via FTP and Red Hat Network. PostgreSQL server, recommended for use
with JOnAS in this beta release, is available in the ‘Extras’
channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on Red Hat Network.
FTP Availability
Installable binary ISO images for use with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3 (RHEL3-RHAPS-beta1-*.iso), are available for each
architecture at:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/iso/
Binary and source RPM packages are available at:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/RHAPS/
They may also be available from Red Hat FTP mirror sites.
Red Hat Network Availability and
Updates
Binary and source RPM packages, and installable binary and
source ISO images for Red Hat Application Server v1.0 Beta 1 are
available via Red Hat Network to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux
customers with current subscriptions at:
https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/all_channels.pxt
During the beta period, we may also supply updated packages on
Red Hat Network. While these updates are not subjected to as much
system testing as our release milestones, they enable you to
immediately test against more recent package builds that may
resolve bugs and issues, rather than requiring you to wait until
the next full milestone release.
Help on installing packages using Red Hat Network is available
at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/2.8/sm-channels-packages.html
Help on using the up2date tool is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/2.8/up2date-setup.html
General help on using Red Hat Network is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/
Bug Reporting
To ensure accurate tracking and follow-up, all bugs should be
reported using Bugzilla at:
We have created a public release category ‘Red Hat Application
Server Public Beta’ for this early access program. Please use
version “1.0-beta1” as the version for all bugs filed against this
milestone release.
Mailing Lists
Red Hat has created a public mailing list for general discussion
of the Red Hat Application Server v1.0 Beta releases.
To subscribe to rhaps-beta-list, send mail to:
rhaps-beta-list-request@redhat.com
with
subscribe
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhaps-beta-list/
Thanks for your interest in testing Red Hat Application Server
v1.0 Beta 1!
Sincerely,
The Red Hat Application Server Team