WSO2 Carbon Studio Release Notes

WSO2 Carbon Studio 1.0.5 Release Notes

6th April 2011

We introduce WSO2 Carbon Studio, is a fully functioned tooling environment which facilitate you to develop, test, deploy and test WSO2 Carbon Artifacts. The tool is created as a plug-in for the popular IDE Eclipse.

These tools are available under the Apache Software License (v2.0) . This includes all of the extra integration and management functionality as well.

New Features

  • Carbon Application Tools
    • Ability to create Registry Aspect class
    • Allow creating the library artifact as a fragment bundle
    • Create sequences and endpoints as registry resources
    • Creating registry resources through templates
  • General
    • Adding WSO2 related libraries when developing applications
    • Other usability improvements
  • ESB tools
    • Ability to specify references of ESB artifacts from a filtered list of resources in the workspace
    • Ability to create registry resource references on the fly for ESB artifacts
    • JBoss Smooks tools integration
  • Governance Registry Tools
    • Enable/disable actions and update icons based on permissions for registry resources for the specified user
    • Upload wsdl resources to the registry as governance archives (GAR support)
  • Introduced Carbon Studio contribution features [Documentation pending]
    • Extensions to add custom proxy service templates
    • Extensions to add registry resource templates
    • Extensions to allow adding mediatype resolvers
    • Extensions to specify new 3rd party libraries
    • Extensions to specify resource providers for
      • Registry Resources
      • ESB Sequences
      • ESB Endpoints
      • ESB Local Entries

Key Features

  • Application Server Tools
    • Create and Edit Apache Axis2 Web Service
    • Create WSDL for Apache Axis2 Web Service archive (aar file)
    • Generate Web Service client
    • Web Applications
    • JAX-WS services
  • Enterprise Service Bus Tools
    • Sequences
    • Endpoints
    • Proxy Services
    • Local Entries
    • Create custom mediators
    • Registry Referencing
  • Governance Registry Tools
    • Create and deploy registry resources
    • Create, edit, debug and deploy registry handlers, filters and registry aspects
    • Manage your remote registry instance
  • Business Process Server Tools
    • View, create and edit BPEL projects
  • Gadget Server Tools
    • Create and edit gadgets
  • Data Services Server Tools
    • Create and edit data services (XML configurations)
    • Create and edit data services validators
  • Carbon Tools
    • Create, edit, debug and deploy Carbon UI bundles
    • Deploy third party libraries as bundles
  • Testing, Deploying and Redeploying
You can find a more detailed version of all the features available in Carbon Studio from WSO2 Carbon Studio Features page.

Project Resources

  1. Home page : WSO2 Carbon Studio
  2. JIRA-Issue Tracker : WSO2 Carbon Studio - JIRA Issues

Reporting Problems

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

Contact us

WSO2 Tools developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

For Users: tools-user@wso2.org

For Developers: carbon-dev@wso2.org



For details on subscriptions see http://wso2.org/projects/tools#mail





Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the WSO2 Tools forum:

Forum http://www.wso2.org/forum/194

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 Carbon Studio please see, http://wso2.org/library/carbon-studio/. visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.



Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Carbon Studio.



-The WSO2 Tooling Team