Jencks is an open source Spring based JCA container for working with Message Driven POJOs, JCA or the the J2EE TransactionManager or WorkManager from Spring reusing code from Geronimo.

This is the first major milestone release of Jencks which includes

* working inbound JMS consumption using regular JMS transactions or full XA transactions with full recovery if a durable message log, like Howl is configured
* Spring factory beans for Geronimo connector and transaction components such WorkManager, TransactionManager, BootstrapContext
* migration of ActiveMQ's JCA Container into Jencks
* reuse on Geronimo implementation code by default for WorkManager and TransactionManager but allows different providers to be plugged in.

For more details see the Release Notes