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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 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 -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:)!!!

WSO2 has announced the release of WSO2 Mashup Server 1.5.2. This release introduced the support for Data Services (Exposing Database, Excel sheet, CSV as a service), Open ID Logins and personalized dashboards to manage mashups and some security improvements. Just have a look at the release note for all the details about the new features, fixes of the release.

WSO2 Mashup Server enables you to develop your enterprise mashups very easily. You will write your code for the mashups in javascript with the full help of integrated javascript objects to consume Web services or Atom feeds, manage sessions, scrape web pages and manipulate storage. Once your put your .js file in to the mashup server repository, your services automatically will have the WSDLs, ‘Try It’ functionality and SOAP, REST interfaces.

If you are new to Mashup Server or to develop Mashups, just have a look at the series of screenshots released by WSO2 sometime ago. That will no doubt take you from zero knowledge to a comfortable state to write full-fledged mashups.

WSO2 announced the release of the revolutionary series of products introducing a componentized design to implement SOA in cost effective and simple manner.

1. WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) – WSO2 WSAS is an enterprise ready web services engine based on Apache Axis2. It is incorporated with many features including,
   • Data services support – Expose you enterprise data as a services in a jiffy
   • WSAS IDE – Eclipse IDE integration
   • Clustering support for High Availability & High Scalability
   • Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation and XKMS
   • EJB service provider support – Expose your EJBs as services
   • Axis1 backward compatibility – Deploy Axis1 services on WSAS & Engage advanced WS-* protocols in front of legacy services
   • JMX & Web interface based monitoring and management
   • WS-* & REST support
   • GUI, command line & IDE based tools for Web service development
2. WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)- WSO2 ESB is a lightweight and easy-to-use Open Source Enterprise Service Bus based on Apache Synapse. Here is the listing of some of key features,
   • Proxy services – facilitating transport, interface (WSDL/Schema/Policy), message format (SOAP 1.1/1.2, POX/REST, Text, Binary), QoS (WS-Addressing/WS-Security/WS-RM) and optimization switching (MTOM/SwA).
   • Non-blocking HTTP/S transports based on Apache HttpCore for ultrafast execution and support for thousands of connections at high concurreny with constant memory usage.
   • Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and reloading of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, JS, ..)
   • Easily extended via custom Java class (mediator and command)/Spring mediators, or BSF Scripting languages (Javascript, Ruby, Groovy, etc.)
   • Built in support for scheduling tasks using the Quartz scheduler.
   • Load-balancing (with or without sticky sessions) /Fail-over, and clustered Throttling and Caching support
   • WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, Caching and Throttling configurable via (message/operation/service level) WS-Policies
   • Lightweight, XML and Web services centric messaging model
   • Support for industrial standards (Hessian binary web service protocol/Financial information exchange protocol)
   • Enhanced support for the VFS/JMS/Mail transports
   • Support for message splitting and aggregation using the EIP
   • Database lookup and store support with DBMediators with reusable database connection pools
   • JMX monitoring support
3. WSO2 Registry – WSO2 Registry is a user-friendly, but comprehensive enterprise resource / metadata management solution. It is capable of
   • Storing and managing arbitrary resources and collections
   • Tagging, commenting and rating
   • Managing users and roles
   • Authentication and authorization on all resources and actions
   • Resource / collection versioning and rollback
   • Advanced search capabilities – tags, users, etc.
   • Built in media type support for common types (WSDL, XSD)
   • Dependency management – maintain relationships between dependent resources
   • Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types
   • Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers
   • Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors
   • Activity log and filtering support for the activity logs
   • Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely
   • Subscribe to directories, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)
   • Java client for remote access via APP
   • Embedded and WAR deployments
   • Web based user interface with Web 2.0 look and feel
4. WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) – WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) is an easy-to-use open source business process server that executes business processes written using the WS-BPEL standard and it’s powered by Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine). It provides you the following features,
   • Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard.
   • Managing BPEL packages, processes and process instances.
   • Data Sources support.
   • External Database support for BPEL engine.
   • WS-Security support for business processes.
   • WS-RM support for business processes.
   • Caching support for business processes.
   • Throttling support for business processes.
   • Transport management.
   • Internationalized web based management console.
   • System monitoring.
   • Try-it for business processes.
   • SOAP Message Tracing.
   • Web Services tooling support such as WSDL2Java, Java2WSDL and WSDL Converter.
   • Customizable server – You can customize the BPS to fit into your exact requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new optional features.

All these products are pre-bundled components built on top of WSO2 Carbon framework which is based on the OSGI technology. In fact you can bundle the components to suite your enterprise architecture as all the major features have been developed as pluggable Carbon components.

WSO2 WSF/Ruby is back in a release, after more than 6 months. We released the WSF/Ruby 1.0.0 in this January (with the start of the year work) with a number of features that someone may expect in a WS-* stack. For Ruby space there were no such thing support that many number of WS-* specs, specially implementation for WS-Security, WS-SecurityPoilcy, MTOM were really new for ruby developers.

For this release (1.1.0), we mainly worked for improving the usability aspects of the WSF/Ruby. The result is the WSDL mode for both client and the server, and more importantly with this you can specify WS-Addressing and WS-SecurityPolicy assertions through a WSDL.

Here is the complete release note. Hope you ruby people try this out, enjoy and more importantly give us some valuable feedback..

WSO2 Web Services Framework For Ruby (WSF/Ruby) – 1.1.0 Released
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WSO2 WSF/Ruby team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 WSF/Ruby 1.1.0.

WSF/Ruby is the Ruby language extension to WSO2 WSF/C. This enables you to consume/provide Web Services both with REST and with the power of WS-* stack including WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing and MTOM Attachments.

For more information, please visit our project home page, http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/ruby

You can download this release from: http://wso2.org/downloads/wsf/ruby

Key Features
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1. Client API to consume Web services

* WSMessage class to handle message level options
* WSClient class with both one way and two way service invocation support

2. Service API to provide Web services

* WSMessage class to handle message level options
* WSService class with support for both one way and two way operations

3. Attachments with MTOM

* Binary optimized
* Non-optimized (Base64 encoded)

4. WS-Addressing

* Version 1.0
* Submission

5. WS-Security
* UsernameToken and Timestamp
* Encryption
* Signing
* WS-SecurityPolicy based configuration

6. WS-Reliable Messaging
* Single channel two way reliable messaging

7. WSDL mode support for both client and server side
* WS-Addressing and WS-SecurityPolicy is supported in WSDL mode

8. REST Support
* Expose a single service script both as SOAP and REST service

Major Changes Since Last Release
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o WSDL mode support for both client and server side
* WS-Addressing and WS-SecurityPolicy is supported in WSDL mode

Dependencies
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1. The provider implementation uses Rails framework as the deployment model. Therefore in order to use provider implementation, you should have Rails installed on your machine. Please visit http://www.rubyonrails.org/ to find out more about RoR(Ruby on Rails).

Reporting Problems
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Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at: https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSFRUBY

Contact Us
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Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSF/Ruby.

- WSO2 WSF/Ruby Team