[esb-java-user] WSO2 ESB 2.1-alpha Released!

[Ruwan Linton]

The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 
2.1-alpha of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This is a 
feature complete *Development Release* of the 2.1 release which is 
planned to go out by end of this month.

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 2.0.2 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. The carbon framework has been stabilized from its previous 
version. 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 started with the command
      wso2esb-samples.sh -sn ${SAMPLE_NUMBER}


      Key Features

    * Rules support provided through a Rule mediator implemented on Drools
    * Fine grained authentication for services via the Entitlement mediator
    * Default persistence to the registry for the configuration elements
    * Fully AJAXified sequence editor with several user interface
      enhancements
    * Enhanced REST/GET and other HTTP method support
    * Enhanced Eventing functionality with registry based subscription
      manager
    * Improved registry integration
    * Added Reliable-Messaging 1.1 support
    * Transactions mediator with enhanced JMS tranports with the
      transactions support
    * Enhanced Endpoint user interface


      How you can Contribute

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.. Since this is an alpha 
release we appreciate your early feedback on this

You may join the WSO2 ESB mailing lists for any queries or questions and 
correspond directly with the developers to get the advantages of Open 
Source Software.

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Alternatively, questions could be raised using the forums available.

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


-- /The WSO2 ESB Team/ --

-- 
Ruwan Linton
Senior Software Engineer & Product Manager; WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb
WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org
email: ruwan at wso2.com; cell: +94 77 341 3097
blog: http://ruwansblog.blogspot.com