[esb-java-user] [ANN] WSO2 ESB 2.0.1 Released !!

[Ruwan Linton]

The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.1 of 
the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). */This is a bug fix 
release of the 2.0 release of WSO2 ESB/.*

WSO2 ESB is a lightweight and easy-to-use Open Source Enterprise Service 
Bus (ESB) available under the Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 ESB 
allows administrators to simply and easily configure message routing, 
intermediation, transformation, logging, task scheduling, etc.. The 
runtime has been designed to be completely asynchronous, non-blocking 
and streaming based on the Apache Synapse core.

WSO2 ESB 2.0.1 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform 
<http://wso2.org/projects/carbon> (Middleware a' la carte), and is based 
on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your SOA 
architecture. This also contains a lots of new features and many other 
optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if 
you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those 
features without any trouble. In other words, this ESB can be customized 
to your SOA needs.

You can download this distribution from http://wso2.org/downloads/esb 
and give it a try.


    How to Run

   1. Extract the downloaded zip
   2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
   3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
   4. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
   5. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an
      admin and create a user account
   6. Assign the required permissions to the user through a role
   7. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the
      property -DosgiConsole when starting the server
   8. Samples configurations can be specified by passing the property
      -Desb.sample=${SAMPLE_NUMBER}


    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


    New Features of the WSO2 ESB 2.0 (2.0.1)

    * This ESB release is based on Carbon "Middleware a' la carte" which
      is an OSGi based SOA platform by WSO2 Inc.
    * Transactional JMS transport and the Transaction mediators
    * Integrated graphical user management
    * Integrated graphical key store management
    * Configurable logging through the management console
    * Graphical data source declaration
    * WS-Eventing support and Event Sources making it an event broker
    * Enhanced sequence and proxy service editor
    * Module management capability
    * Transport configuration management through the graphical console
    * Graceful/Forced shutdown/restart
    * Enhanced integrated registry and search functionalities
    * User permissions support
    * Enhanced monitoring tools for statistics and tracing
    * Try-It tool to try an existing service
    * Graphical policy editor
    * Administration console fully internationalized
    * Better modularity and extendability through OSGi component
      architecture


    How You Can Contribute


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      Reporting Issues

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for 
the WSO2 ESB using the public JIRA 
<http://www.wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA>.

You can also watch how they are resolved, and comment on the progress..


      Discussion Forums

Alternatively, questions could be raised using the forums available.

WSO2 ESB Forum <http://wso2.org/forum/187> : Discussion forum for WSO2 
ESB developers/users


    Training

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs, including 
training on general Web services as well as WSO2 ESB, Apache Synapse, 
Apache Axis2 and number of other products.

For additional support information please refer to 
http://wso2.com/training/course-catalog/


    Support

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support 
programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business 
hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.

For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/

For more information on WSO2 ESB, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank 
(http://wso2.org)

We welcome your feedback on this implementation. Thank you for your 
interest in WSO2 ESB.

/-- The WSO2 ESB Team --/

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