WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Identity Server, WSO2 ESB, WSO2 Web Service Application Server Released

WSO2 has released new versions of their SOA platform products including WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Identity Server, WSO2 ESB, WSO2 Web Service Application Server. This is a major version upgrade of these products introducing many features.


ESB:

• Priority based mediation through priority executors


• WS-Discovery support and dynamic endpoint discovery


• Message Relay for efficient pass through of messages


• Component manager to install and uninstall features (provisioning support)


• Common Internet File System (CIFS) support through the VFS transport


• File locking functionality in the VFS transport to support concurrent polling


• Smooks mediator for efficient message transformation


• Enrich mediator for smart message manipulation


• OAuth mediator for 2-legged OAuth support


• Default endpoint UI


• Hot deploy and hot update configuration elements (sequences, endpoints, proxy services etc)


• Transport level statistics collection and monitoring


• POX security support


• Dependency detection and alerting for mediation configuration elements


• Mediation statistics API and custom mediation statistics consumers


• Multiple certificate/identity support in the NHTTP transport sender


• Improved logging capabilities for the NHTTP transport


• Templates based proxy service development in the UI


• Dashboard to monitor server environment and runtime


• Easy creation and management capabilities for dynamic sequences and endpoints


• Pagination to service management, endpoint management and sequence management UIs


• Obtaining resources like WSDL's through web proxy servers

Governance Registry

• Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources


• WSDL custom view


• Dynamic Handler configuration


• Handler simulator


• Tree-based Resource view


• API to govern SOA artifacts


• Complete Web Services API for Registry


• Improved options for Service discovery


• WS-Discovery support


• Scripting support for lifecycle management


• Improved P2 based provisioning and feature management support


• Support for adding remote mounts


• Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model


• Support for multiple server instances


• E-mail verification for subscriptions


• Support for deleting tags and comments


• Support for PostgreSQL and DB2 DBMS


• Paged activity and resource search


• Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions


• Ability to upload metadata (in addition to importing)


• Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports


• Ability to update resource content by uploading


• Rich text editor for editing text resources


• XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations

Web Service Application Server (WSO2 WSAS):

• Component Manager - The UI tool to install/uninstall Carbon featrues.


• Various bug fixes & enhancements including architectural improvements to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart, Apache Sandesha2 , WSO2 Carbon & other projects.


• Equinox P2 based provisioning support - extend your WSAS instance by installin new P2 features. See P2 based provisioning in WSO2 Carbon


• Hierarchical service support for Axis2 services, JAX-WS services, Spring services & Jar services


• Report generation for deployed services

Identity Server:

• SAML 2.0 based Single Sign-on support


• OAuth Support


• Support for bulk-user import


• Various bug fixes and enhancements including architectural improvements to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart, Apache Sandesha2 , WSO2 Carbon and other projects.

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 Eclipse IDE Tooling for WSAS and BPS

Saminda Wijerathna the lead of the WSO2 tooling team, announced the release of a new version of IDE tools for WSO2 WSAS and BPS. These tools will help you to write web services or web service clients and test them within your Eclipse IDE.

You can download the tools and the related documentation from http://wso2.org/downloads/tools/eclipse.

Here are the key features of the set of IDE tools,

• Create Web services


• Create web service client


• Convert WSDL 1.1 to 2.0


• Module and service validators


• Creating wsdl from a java class


• Create Axis2 archives


• Hot update a Web service


• Debug Web services


• Test Web services


• Conversion of WSDL 1.1 to 2.0 can now be done vice versa as well.


• Creating Bpel archives for deploy


• Start WSAS 3.0.x inside Eclipse


• Run multiple instances of WSAS inside eclipse

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:)!!!

Apache Stonehenge Releases First Milestone

Apache Stonehenge, A project to demonstrate the interoperability between heterogeneous platforms has done their first milestone release few days back.

The first milestone demonstrate the interoperability between

1. .NET - Microsoft WCF implementation


2. Java - WSO2 Web Service Application Server (WSAS) implementation


3. PHP - WSO2 Web Service Framework for PHP (WSF/PHP) implementation

Each of these technologies has implemented a Stock trader application with Business Service, Order Processor and Trader Client components. You will be able to assemble the application by mixing components from any of the above implementations.

It provides you a great sample on using basic web services features (SOAP, WSDL etc..) and WS-Security across the above platforms.

If you are interested, you can download the sources and binaries from here, http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/stonehenge/. Installation guides and other documentations can be found from here, http://cwiki.apache.org/STONEHENGE/