WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP 2.1.0 Released

WSO2 just released a newer version of the popular web services framework for php (WSF/PHP). It has lot of bug fixes + performance improvement.  And it now support PHP 5.3. So you can use wsf/php with the latest php version.

You can download the new release from http://wso2.org/downloads/wsf/php.

WSO2 Releases Goernance Registry 3.0.1, ESB 2.1.1, WSAS 3.1.1, IS 2.0.1 AND Mashup Server 2.0.0

WSO2 announced an another round of release of their famous SOA products.

• WSO2 Governance Registry 3.0.1


• WSO2 ESB 2.1.1


• WOS2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) 3.1.1


• WSO2 Identity Server (IS) 2.0.1


• WSO2 Mashup Server 2.0.0

Although the version numbers say this is minor patch release (Other than the Mashup Server which is shipping as a major release), in fact there are new features and improvements. Some basic new features shares among all of these products are

1. Improved registry level transaction Support.


2. Improved Support for deploying on top of Application Servers other than tomcat like WebSphere, WebLogic, and
   JBoss.


3. Support for Eclipse P2 based provisioning. (Yes, you can add/remove features from these WSO2 products , see https://wso2.org/wiki/display/carbon/p2-based-provisioning-support for more details)


4. Improved Remote Registry model

WSO2 Releases Web Service Framework For C++

WSO2 announced the release of the Web Services Framework for C++ (WSF/C++) version 2.0.0. Similar to WSF/PHP which is really popular among the PHP community, WSF/CPP is the C++ language binding for the Apache Axis2/C and the other supporting web services projects like Apache Sandesha/C, Apache Rampart/C.

With this release C++ developers will be able to write web services and web service clients to inter-op with .NET/Java/PHP or any other platform built-on web service standards. The release is shiped with a code generation tool that will be used to generate the code for skeletons and stubs from a WSDL, so developers only need to concentrate on their business logic as the generated code will take care of building or parsing xmls and running them on top of the framework.
Here are the key features of the new release.

1. Support core web service standards like SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1, WSDL 2.0, REST


2. Support for web services QoS specifications.
   
   
   
   • WS-Addressing
   
   
   • WS-Security
   
   
   • WS-Policy
   
   
   • WS-Security-Policy
   
   
   • WS-Reliable-Messaging
   
   
   
   


3. Support binary attachment with MTOM and SWA (With the Support for large binaries)


4. Code generation tool.


5. Proven interoperability with .NET.

As a side note, you will be able to participate to a free summer school training session on the WSF/CPP conducted by Nandika Jayawardane who is the project lead of both WSF/CPP and WSF/PHP on 30th July. You can register to it (for free) from here.

WSO2 Carbon 2 - WSAS, ESB & Governance Registry Released

WSO2 -An open source middleware company- announced the release of bunch of their SOA enabling products along with Carbon 2.0.0 which is an OSGI based unified platform that all the WSO2 java products are built on.

• WSAS (Web Service Application Server) - Provide and consume web services, data services with full WS-*, REST support, GUI tools, Integration with Eclipse, etc..


• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) - Message routing, mediation, transformation, logging, task scheduling, load balancing, failover routing, event brokering, etc. with number of transports support


• Governance Registry - Govern you SOA platform, introducing number of new features including Dashboard with Gadgets, lifecycle management with checklists, eventing and notifications, remote/symbolic links, checkin/checkout functionality and new meta data management UI.

You will be able to get the advantage of the carbon platform by extending the functionality of any of these products, just by mixing components from other products (Just like running an ESB within WSAS).

Download, Play around with them and Enjoy:)!!!