The first version (1.0.0.alpha) of the OpenEJB Eclipse Plugin has now been released! This release includes:

* WTP support for the OpenEJB standalone server
* EJB 2.1 deployment descriptor to EJB 3 annotation conversion wizard
* Error highlighting and quick fix for problems with EJB3.1 @DependsOn annotation
* OSGi wrapper to use OpenEJB in Equinox, to help build RCP applications

The plugin is available for download here: http://apache... (more)

Apache OpenEJB 3.1.2 has been released! This release is a short 4 months after our prior 3.1.1 release and is largely focused on bug fixes and small improvements with a couple new features. Scanning support for JSF 2.0 ManagedBeans allows for a nice OpenEJB/Tomcat/Mojarra stack. Database passwords listed in the openejb.xml can now be encrypted using our new 'cipher' command line tool. Focus areas of improvements/fixes include @LocalCli... (more)

We've had some download issues with the original screencast, so we have uploaded it to a video sight and are reposting it to the blog.

This screencast shows how you can turn the plain, non-javaee version of Eclipse into an EJB testing machine. The tutorial walks you through installing Eclipse, adding OpenEJB to your project's classpath, and creating a simple EJB with a JUnit unit test.

EJB Unit Testing with Eclipse and OpenEJB... (more)

Magnus K Karlsson writes Effective Unit Testing EJB 3.0 with OpenEJB.

As you state quite well, Mangus, many people have had a bad experience with EJB 2.1 and although simpler EJB 3.0 is not so easily testable without a container. Unless of course you use an embedded EJB container like OpenEJB.

We greatly appreciate blog posts like yours as many people try and fail with a few approaches before finally finding OpenEJB. So many more peo... (more)

Nick Mpallas writes in his Nick Says blog an entry titled OpenEJB 3.1 JBoss Embedded and EJB 3.0 unit testing about his month long quest to figure out a way to unit test EJBs. He tries JBoss Embedded first as so many people do and eventually settles on OpenEJB with TestNG and Hibernate.

Thanks for writing, Nick! We're really excited to see more updates about your progress.