_posts/2016-09-04-apache_openwebbeans_1_7_0.html

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title: Apache OpenWebBeans-1.7.0 has been released
excerpt: "<p>\r\nThe Apache OpenWebBeans Team is proud to announce the release of
  <b>Apache OpenWebBeans-1.7.0</b>!</p>Apache OpenWebBeans is an Apache License v2
  licensed implementation of the JSR-346 CDI-1.2 specification. The main change to
  OWB-1.6.x is that we now hava Java7 as minimum \r\nrequirement. We also removed
  support for EE5 technologies like JSF-1.2, \r\nEL-1.0 and Tomcat6."
id: '08bded24-533e-41c2-8d70-b51480732df4'
date: '2016-09-04 08:54:07 -0400'
categories: owb
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- owb
permalink: owb/entry/apache_openwebbeans_1_7_0
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<p>
The Apache OpenWebBeans Team is proud to announce the release of <b>Apache OpenWebBeans-1.7.0</b></p>
<p>Apache OpenWebBeans is an Apache License v2 licensed implementation of the JSR-346 CDI-1.2 specification.</p>
<p>OpenWebBeans has a modular structure and provides Dependency Injection scaling from Java SE environments up to Java EE7 server clusters with complicated ClassLoader hierarchies or OSGi environments.</p>
<p>The main change to OWB-1.6.x is that we now hava Java7 as minimum requirement. We also removed support for EE5 technologies like JSF-1.2, EL-1.0 and Tomcat6.</p>
<p>OpenWebBeans-1.7.0 implements the CDI-1.2 API, passes the JSR-330 TCK and the JSR-346 standalone and EE7 webprofile TCKs.</p>
<p>Distribution packages can be downloaded from<br />http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/openwebbeans/1.7.0/</p>
<p>Hashes can be found here<br />http://www.apache.org/dist/openwebbeans/1.7.0/</p>
<p>The release is also available in maven.central<br />http://repo1.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/openwebbeans/</p>
<p>More info can be found at http://openwebbeans.apache.org</p>