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 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

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

• 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:)!!!

1. Unified QoS configurations – Allows you to add/drop modules for security, reliability, etc of your services + edit their policies in a unified view.
2. Unified Registry Storage – Provides a unified view over the governance of the SOA platform.
3. Unified Trackers – Availability of logs, statistics, graphs and  message tracers making it easy to debug and test your system.
4. Unified User Experience – Well designed unified User interfaces allowing admins/users to get familiar with each of the components very quickly and easily.
5. Unified Extensibility – The underline OSGI environment and the design of the carbon platform itself make it possible to add new OSGI bundles as extensions to fit equally across all the products.

• Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) – Enables you to provide and consume web services
• Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) – Enables you to mediate web service interactions
• Business Process Service (WSO2 BPS) – Enables you to orchestrate services for your business process.
• Registry (WSO2 Registry) Enables you to store and govern your resources.

The uniqueness of WSO2 platform is that it provides you the freedom to mix and match these components according to your requirements. Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2 describes this as a Composable SOA platform. You can drop ESB component to BPS instance to add mediation capabilities to your business process server or the other way around.

In the following screencast Ruwan Linton – Product Manger of WSO2 ESB explains how to get the mediation capabilities inside a web service application server, putting ESB component in to WSO2 WSAS and demonstrating their integrated operations.

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.