Hi ,
 
thanks for your official announcement of your first draft of the ESB roadmap. 
It reads quite interesting. Of course I have some questions and comments. ;-)
 
What about the integration of the WSO2 registry and the ESB? I haven't read 
something about it in your release plan. Nevertheless I have seen some commits 
in that area.
We would be very interested to be able to model the service dependencies 
(including service versions) as our producers do face some problems in that 
area. On the other side I'm not sure if the versioning support of the WSO2 
registry does offer the same functionality/flexibility one has in using just 
plain synapse.xml and cvs/subversion or any version control. In order to 
rollback to an old set of configuration I simply need to execute a script to 
check out the last version from the repository and restart the cluster. Does 
the WSO2 registry supports some versioning over the whole content (not only 
single entries)? Or would that mean to backup a database and do a restore?
 
Will the graceful shutdown support incl. some central storage of all cluster 
members as well as shell scripts for operational purposes or do we need to 
write something around the JMX support in order to make this more "admin 
friendly"?
 
Do you plan to extend the number of mediators shipped with the distribution 
(including UI support)? For example the Route-Mediator from Ruwan seems to be 
very flexible and useful.
 
Anyhow I have a question regarding the configuration UI. Is this meant for 
education purposes only or do you expect any of your users to use this for real 
life scenarios? I mean it really looks great, but is not very suitable if the 
number of "object/elements" in each area reaches real life dimensions.
Just to give you one example. The UI of the switch mediator wastes a lot of 
space. On field for the expression and below a simple table with two columns 
(value and endpoit/sequence) would be more sufficient.
Do you plan some improvements in that area or is the UI only meant as an 
example how one could visualize the config?
The point 
"Better pagination, searching/filtering and ordering of the service, endpoints 
and sequence list and statistics"
gives some hope you are planning enhancements for the 2.0 release. This is one 
point were I really would love to see some touch-up. Right now it is more 
likely we will use the plain xml-file approach.
 
Regarding statistics I would see another business requirement. Currently the 
user has only some kind of "snapshot" statistics. You create a service and the 
counter starts. As far as I know you are neither able to reset specific 
endpoints/service, nor to see some trend information (process of time). But 
this is very important, if you want to make a statement about the usage of your 
services. Also a last access time (probably easy to add) would help to identify 
services which are not used and might be taken offline.
 
>From the research area the following points sound interesting:
"Raise Alerts from mediation, and provide ability to view Alerts from 
monitoring console"
Does this go into the direction of defining some SLA and reporting violations? 
This would be a really useful feature.
 
"Enhanced JMX reporting and Cluster management"
In that area you seem to be on a good way. Going ahead in that direction would 
be fine as this is a need probably many customs will express.
 
Keep up the good work guys. I hope some of my feedback is useful to further 
improve this product!
 
 
Regards,
   Eric
 

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Betreff: [esb-java-dev] ESB roadmap published



Asankha has posted our first draft of the ESB roadmap here:
http://wso2.org/wiki/display/esbjava/WSO2+Enterprise+Service+Bus+Roadmap

Comments are welcome!

Thanks

Paul
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