The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 4.0.2 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 Licensev2.0<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>
.WSO2 ESB allows system administrators
and developers to easily configure message routing, inter
mediation,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<http://synapse.apache.org/> mediation engine.

WSO2 ESB  4.0.2  is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon
platform<http://wso2.org/projects/carbon> (Middlewarea' 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.org/downloads/esb and
give it a try.

* New Features in this Release*

   - SVN based deployment synchronizer - Easily synchronize the
   configuration across a cluster of Carbon servers using a central SVN
   repository
   - Payload factory mediator - Create SOAP payloads using printf() style
   formatting

*Enhancements in this Release*

   - Improved REST support
   - Improved HTTP relay transport

*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).
   - 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 with event sources and event brokering
   - 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 4.0.2 are recorded at following locations:

   - Fixed ESB specific issues<
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10585>
   - Fixed base framework issues<
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10587>

*Known Issues*

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 ESB 4.0.2 are reported at following
locations:

   -  WSO2 ESB 4.0.2 component issues<
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10594>
   -  WSO2 ESB 4.0.2 base framework issues<
   https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10590>

*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
   6. 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
   7. 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)


*How to Contribute*

*Mailing Lists*

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

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*Reporting Issues*

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature
requests regarding WSO2 ESB through the public ESB
JIRA<http://www.wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA>. You can use the Carbon JIRA <
http://www.wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON> to report any issues related to the
Carbon base framework or associated Carbon components.

*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

*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.

* --The WSO2 ESB Team-- *
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