The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 4.6.0 Released! (FASTER.........)
WSO2
ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.6.0 of the
Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
WSO2
ESB is a fast, lightweight and user friendly open source Enterprise
Service Bus (ESB) distributed under the Apache
Software License v2.0.
WSO2 ESB allows system administrators and developers to easily
configure message routing, intermediation, transformation, logging,
task scheduling, fail over routing and load balancing. It also
supports transport switching, eventing, rule based mediation and
priority based mediation for advanced integration requirements. The
ESB runtime is designed to be completely asynchronous, non-blocking
and streaming based on the Apache
Synapse mediation
engine.
WSO2
ESB 4.6.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2
Carbon platform (Middleware
a' la carte), an OSGi based framework that provides seamless
modularity to your SOA via componentization. This release also
contains many new features and a range of optional components
(add-ons) that can be installed to customize the behavior of the ESB.
Further, any existing features of the ESB which are not required to
your environment can be easily removed using the underlying
provisioning framework of Carbon. In brief, WSO2 ESB can be fully
customized and tailored to meet your exact SOA needs.
You
can download this distribution
from http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus/ and
give it a try.
How to Run
- Extract the downloaded zip
- Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
- Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
- Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
- Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin
- If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property -DosgiConsole when starting the server. The INSTALL.txt file found on the installation directory will give you a comprehensive set of options and properties that can be passed into the startup script
- Sample configurations can be started by the wso2esb-samples script passing the sample number with the -sn option (Please have a look at the samples guide for more information, on running samples)
Enhancements in WSO2 ESB 4.6.0
- PassThrough HTTP transport support for all mediation scenarios
- FastXSLT mediator for high performance XSLT transformations
- Improved XPATH performance
Key Features of WSO2 ESB
- Proxy services - facilitating synchronous/asynchronous 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).
- API facilitating building REST services
- Non-blocking HTTP/S transports based on Apache HttpCore-NIO for ultra-fast execution and support for thousands of connections at high concurrency with constant memory usage.
- Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and reloading of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, WSDL, Policies, JS configurations ..)
- Easily extendable via custom Java classes (mediator and command)/Spring configurations, 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 & 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 and optional Health Level-7 protocol)
- Enhanced support for the VFS (File/FTP/SFTP), JMS, Mail transports with optional TCP/UDP transports and transport switching among any of the above transports
- Support for message splitting & aggregation using the EIP and service callouts
- Database lookup & store support with DBMediators with reusable database connection pools
- WS-Eventing support
- Rule based mediation of the messages using the Drools rule engine
- Transactions support via the JMS transport and Transaction mediator for database mediators
- Internationalized GUI management console with user management for configuration development
- Integrated monitoring support with statistics, configurable logging and tracing
- JMX monitoring support and JMX management capabilities like, Graceful/Forceful shutdown/restart
Bugs Fixed in This Release
This
release of WSO2 ESB comes with a number of bug fixes, both in the
base framework and the ESB specific components. All the issues which
have been fixed in ESB 4.6.0 are recorded at following locations:
Known Issues
All
the open issues pertaining to WSO2 ESB 4.6.0 are reported at
following locations:
How You Can Contribute
Mailing Lists
Join
our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.
- Developer List : dev@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
Reporting Issues
We
encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature
requests regarding WSO2 ESB through the public ESB
JIRA.
You can use the Carbon
JIRA to
report any issues related to the Carbon base framework or associated
Carbon components.
Discussion Forums
Alternatively,
questions could be raised on http://stackoverflow.com.
Support
We
are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment
is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique
approach ensures that all support leverages our open development
methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the
technology.
For
more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please
visit http://wso2.com/support.
For
more information about WSO2 ESB please
see http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus.
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The WSO2 ESB Team --
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