Author: ruwan Date: Sat Jul 4 10:41:39 2009 New Revision: 40787 URL: http://wso2.org/svn/browse/wso2?view=rev&revision=40787
Log: Fixing the release-notes Modified: branches/esb/java/2.1/product/docs/xdoc/release-notes.xml Modified: branches/esb/java/2.1/product/docs/xdoc/release-notes.xml URL: http://wso2.org/svn/browse/wso2/branches/esb/java/2.1/product/docs/xdoc/release-notes.xml?rev=40787&r1=40786&r2=40787&view=diff ============================================================================== --- branches/esb/java/2.1/product/docs/xdoc/release-notes.xml (original) +++ branches/esb/java/2.1/product/docs/xdoc/release-notes.xml Sat Jul 4 10:41:39 2009 @@ -23,26 +23,27 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/> - <title>WSO2 ESB v2.0 Released - 09th February 2009</title> + <title>WSO2 ESB v2.1.0 Released - 08th July 2009</title> </head> <body> <div id="header"> </div> <div id="main-content"> -<h1>The WSO2 ESB 2.0 Released!</h1> +<h1>The WSO2 ESB 2.1.0 Released!</h1> -<p>The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of +<p>The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.1.0 of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).</p> <p>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.</p> +transformation, logging, task scheduling, load balancing, failover routing, +event brokering, etc.. The runtime has been designed to be completely +asynchronous, non-blocking and streaming based on the Apache Synapse core.</p> -<p>WSO2 ESB 2.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary <a href="http://wso2.org/projects/carbon";>Carbon platform</a> +<p>WSO2 ESB 2.1.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary + <a href="http://wso2.org/projects/carbon";>Carbon platform</a> (Middleware a' la carte), and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your SOA architecture. This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the @@ -65,64 +66,74 @@ <li>Assign the required permissions to the user through a role</li> <li>If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property - -DosgiConsole when starting the server</li> - <li>Samples configurations can be specified by passing the property - -Desb.sample=${SAMPLE_NUMBER}</li> + -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</li> + <li>Samples 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</li> </ol> -<h2>Key Features</h2> +<h2>Key Features of WSO2 ESB</h2> <ul> - <li>Proxy services - facilitating 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).</li> + <li>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).</li> <li>Non-blocking HTTP/S transports based on Apache HttpCore for ultrafast execution and support for thousands of connections at high concurreny with constant memory usage.</li> <li>Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and reloading - of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, JS, ..)</li> - <li>Easily extended via custom Java class (mediator and command)/Spring mediators, - or BSF Scripting languages (Javascript, Ruby, Groovy, etc.)</li> + of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, WSDL, + Policies, JS, Configurations ..)</li> + <li>Easily extendable via custom Java class (mediator and command)/Spring + mediators, or BSF Scripting languages (Javascript, Ruby, Groovy, etc.)</li> <li>Built in support for scheduling tasks using the Quartz scheduler.</li> - <li>Load-balancing (with or without sticky sessions) /Fail-over, and clustered + <li>Load-balancing (with or without sticky sessions)/Fail-over, and clustered Throttling and Caching support</li> - <li>WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, Caching and Throttling configurable via + <li>WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, Caching & Throttling configurable via (message/operation/service level) WS-Policies</li> <li>Lightweight, XML and Web services centric messaging model</li> - <li>Support for industrial standards (Hessian binary web service protocol/Financial - information exchange protocol)</li> - <li>Enhanced support for the VFS/JMS/Mail transports</li> - <li>Support for message splitting and aggregation using the EIP</li> - <li>Database lookup and store support with DBMediators with reusable database + <li> Support for industrial standards (Hessian binary web service protocol/ + Financial Information eXchange protocol and optional Helth Level-7 protocol)</li> + <li>Enhanced support for the VFS(File/FTP/SFTP)/JMS/Mail transports with + optional TCP/UDP transports and transport switching for any of the above + transports</li> + <li>Support for message splitting & aggregation using the EIP and service + callouts</li> + <li>Database lookup & store support with DBMediators with reusable database connection pools</li> - <li>JMX monitoring support</li> + <li>WS-Eventing support with event sources and event brokering</li> + <li>Rule based mediation of the messages using the Drools rule engine</li> + <li>Transactions support via the JMS transport and Transaction mediator for + database mediators</li> + <li>Internationalized GUI management console with user/permission management for + configuration development and monitoring support with statistics, + configurable logging and tracing</li> + <li>JMX monitoring support and JMX management capabilities like, + Gracefull/Forcefull shutdown/restart</li> </ul> -<h2>New Features of the WSO2 ESB 2.0</h2> +<h2>New Features of the WSO2 ESB 2.1.0</h2> <ul> <li>This ESB release is based on Carbon "Middleware a' la carte" which is an OSGi - based SOA platform by WSO2 Inc.</li> - <li>Transactional JMS transport and the Transaction mediators</li> - <li>Integrated graphical user management</li> - <li>Integrated graphical key store management</li> - <li>Configurable logging through the management console</li> - <li>Graphical data source declaration</li> - <li>WS-Eventing support and Event Sources making it an event broker</li> - <li>Enhanced sequence and proxy service editor</li> - <li>Module management capability</li> - <li>Transport configuration management through the graphical console</li> - <li>Graceful/Forced shutdown/restart</li> - <li>Enhanced integrated registry and search functionalities</li> - <li>User permissions support</li> - <li>Enhanced monitoring tools for statistics and tracing</li> - <li>Try-It tool to try an existing service</li> - <li>Graphical policy editor</li> - <li>Administration console fully internationalized</li> - <li>Better modularity and extendability through OSGi component architecture</li> + based SOA platform version 2.0 by WSO2 Inc.</li> + <li>Rule based mediation via Drools</li> + <li>Fine grained autherization for services via the Entitlement mediator</li> + <li>Reliable-Messaging specification 1.1 support</li> + <li>Enhanced WS-Eventing support and Event Sources making it an even broker</li> + <li>Enhanced AJAX based sequence, endpoint and proxy service editors</li> + <li>Enhanced transport configuration management through the graphical console</li> + <li>Enhanced integrated registry and search functionalities with versionning, + notifications, rating of resources, and commenting</li> + <li>Enhanced remote registry support</li> + <li>Default persistence to the registry for the configuration elements</li> + <li>Enhanced permission model with the user management</li> + <li>Enhanced REST/GET and other HTTP method support</li> + <li>P2 based OSGi feature support, for optional features like service + management, runtime governance and so on..</li> </ul> -<h2> - How You Can Contribute - </h2> +<h2>How You Can Contribute</h2> <h3> Mailing Lists </h3> @@ -133,14 +144,11 @@ <li> Developer List : <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> | <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe";>Subscribe</a> - | <a - href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe";>Unsubscribe</a> | <a href="http://wso2.org/mailarchive/esb-java-dev/";>Mail Archive</a> </li> <li> User List : <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> | <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe";>Subscribe</a> - | <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe";>Unsubscribe</a> | <a href="http://wso2.org/mailarchive/esb-java-user/";>Mail Archive</a> </li> </ul> @@ -179,9 +187,11 @@ programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.</p> -<p>For additional support information please refer to <a href="http://wso2.com/support/";>http://wso2.com/support/</a></p> +<p>For additional support information please refer to + <a href="http://wso2.com/support/";>http://wso2.com/support/</a></p> -<p>For more information on WSO2 ESB, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank (<a href="http://wso2.org";>http://wso2.org</a>)</p> +<p>For more information on WSO2 ESB, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank + (<a href="http://wso2.org";>http://wso2.org</a>)</p> <p>We welcome your feedback on this implementation. Thank you for your interest in WSO2 ESB. </p> _______________________________________________ Esb-java-dev mailing list [email protected] https://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/esb-java-dev
