WSO2 Business Process Server(WSO2 BPS) v2.1.2 Released!

The WSO2 Business Process Server(BPS) team is pleased to announce the
release of 2.1.2 version of the Open Source Business Process server.

WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) is an easy-to-use Open Source Business
Process Server that executes business processes written following WS-BPEL
standard. WS-BPEL is emerging as the defacto standard for composing
multiple synchronous and asynchronous web services into collaborative and
transactional process flows which increase the flexibility and agility of
your Service Oriented Architecture. WSO2 BPS is powered by Apache
ODE<http://ode.apache.org/> and
available under Apache Software License
v2.0<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>.
WSO2 BPS provides a complete Web based graphical console to deploy, manage
and monitor business process and process instances.

WSO2 BPS is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform
(Middleware a' la carte), and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the
better modularity for you SOA. Carbon platform contains lots of new
features and many other optional components that can be used to customize
or enhance the functionalities provided by BPS to suits you SOA needs. In
addition to installing optional components you can uninstall unwanted
features without any trouble.

An open source product, WSO2 BPS is available under the Apache Software
License (v2.0) <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>. This
includes all of the extra integration and management functionality as well.

Key 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.
   - BPEL Extensions and XPath extensions support
   - Instance recovery(Only supports 'Invoke' activity) support through
   management console
   - OpenJPA based Data Access Layer
   - WS-Security support for business processes.
   - Support for invoking secured(Using WS-Security) partner services.
   - BPEL Package hot update which facilitate Versioning of BPEL Packages
   - E4X based data manipulation support for BPEL assignments
   - Configure external data base system as the BPEL engine's persistence
   storage
   - 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.
   - New end-point configuration mechanism based on WSO2 Unified Endpoints.
   - Customizable server - You can customize the BPS to fit into your exact
   requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new optional
   features.
   - Performance improvements in XPath evaluations
   - Clustering support for BPEL engine
   - Improved BPS home page
   - Improved Try-it tool
   - "Remember me" feature


New Features In This Release

   - Improved BPS management console and BPS documentation
   - Deployment synchronizer - Easily synchronize the configuration across
   a cluster of Carbon Servers


Issues Fixed for this release

   - WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform -
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10597


XML & WS-* Standards Support

   - BPEL4WS 1.1
   - WS-BPEL 2.0
   - SOAP 1.1/1.2
   - WSDL 1.1
   - WSDL 2.0
   - MTOM, XOP & SOAP with Attachments
   - WS-Addressing
   - WS-Security 1.0/1.1
   - WS-Trust
   - WS-SecureConversation
   - WS-SecurityPolicy
   - WS-ReliableMessaging
   - WS-Policy
   - WS-PolicyAttachment
   - WS-MetadataExchange
   - WS-Transfer
   - XKMS


Open Source components included in WSO2 BPS/Java

   - Apache ODE (BPEL)
   - Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
   - Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)
   - Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)
   - Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)
   - Apache Sandesha2 (WS-ReliableMessaging)
   - Apache Batik
   - WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2
   - Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)
   - WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2
   - Apache XML Schema
   - H2 (Database)
   - Apache OpenJPA
   - Embedded Apache Tomcat
   - Spring Framework

Apache Axis2 modules included with WSO2 BPS

   - Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security & WS-Trust
   - Apache Rahas: Supporting WS-SecureConversation
   - Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging
   - Mex: Supporting WS-MetaDataExchange
   - Throttle: For throttling requests
   - Statistics: For gathering & monitoring statistics
   - SOAP Tracer: For tracing SOAP requests & responses
   - XFer: Supporting WS-Transfer
   - XKMS: Supporting XML Key Management Specification


Known Issues

   - WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform -
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10529
   - Human Tasks feature is discontinued until the tool is available for
   Carbon Studio


Reporting Problems

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

Contact us

WSO2 BPS developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
*For Users:*bps-u...@wso2.org  <bps-u...@wso2.org>
*For Developers:*carbon-dev@wso2.org
For details on subscriptions see http://wso2.org/mail

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 BPS, please see
http://wso2.com/products/business-process-server/ or visit the WSO2 Oxygen
Tank <http://wso2.org/> developer portal for addition resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 BPS

*-The WSO2 BPS Development Team*
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