WSO2 Application Server (WSO2 AS) 5.2.0 Released! September 2013

The WSO2 Application Server team is pleased to announce the release of
version 5.2.0 of the WSO2 Application Server (AS). Please find the latest
packs at http://wso2.com/products/application-server/

The WSO2 Application Server is an enterprise-ready, cloud-enabled
application server, powered by Apache Tomcat, and integrates Apache Axis2
and Apache CXF frameworks. It provides first class support for standard Web
applications, JAX-WS/RS applications and Jaggery scripting applications.
Coupled with features of WSO2 Carbon <http://wso2.com/products/carbon/> ,
users can now manage their applications in a unified manner via the
management console.

Application Server also provides a comprehensive Web services server
platform, using Axis2 and CXF as its Web services runtimes and provide many
value additions on top of that. It can expose services using both SOAP and
REST models and supports a comprehensive set of WS-* specifications such as
WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Reliable Messaging,
WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, etc. WSO2 Application Server
also has inbuilt support for Mashup services and WSO2 Data services. WSO2
Application Server can be installed on on-premise or any public/private
cloud infrastructure and provide unified management console and lifestyle
management features which are independent from underlying deployment option.

WSO2 Application Server is a part of WSO2 cloud platform (PaaS). The hosted
offering of WSO2 Application Server as a Service can be accessed from here
https://management.appserver.stratoslive.wso2.com

An open source product, WSO2 Application Server is available under the
license, 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.

New Features In This Release

   - Java EE Web Profile support - support for Java Server Faces (JSF),
   Java Persistence API (JPA), and Java Transaction API (JTA) specifications
   out-of-the-box.
   - Webapp Statistics publishing from Application Server to Business
   Activity Monitor (BAM)
   - Improved JNDI support for Tomcat JNDI resources for Web applications
   - Run AS on multiple modes/profiles which includes webapp, and axis2
   service profiles
   - New Distributed Caching implementation based on Hazelcast
   - New Clustering implementation based on Hazelcast
   - Synchronous deployment of CApp artifacts to ensure the atomicity of a
   CApp
   - Automated patch application process
   - Configuration files read/write support for third party libraries
   - CXF version upgraded to 2.7.6
   - Jettison version upgraded to 1.3.4
   - Tomcat version is 7.0.34

Key Features

   - Support for Servlet 3, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, JSTL 1.2 specifications.
   - Full JAX-WS 2.2 and JAX-RS 2.0 Specification support
   - Integration of Jaggery - server side scripting framework
   - Unified Application listing and management UI for Web Apps, JAX-WS/RS,
   Jaggery
   - Inbuilt Mashup services support
   - Multi Tenant support for standalone deployment
   - 100% Apache Tomcat compliance runtime
   - Lazy loading for web applications and services
   - AS Tooling - AppServer related artifacts can be easily developed using
   WSO2 Developer Studio
   - Clustering support for High Availability and High Scalability
   - Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure
   Conversation
   - JMX and Web interface based monitoring and management
   - WS-* and REST support
   - Equinox P2 based provisioning support
   - WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1 and try it (invoke any remote Web service)

Issues Fixed for this release

   - AppServer related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform -
   https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=11272



XML & WS-* Standards Support

   - 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
   - WS-Eventing

Java EE Web application Standards Support

   - Servlet 3.0
   - JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2
   - Expression Language (EL) 2.2
   - Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2
   - Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
   - Java Server Faces (JSF) 2.1
   - Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0
   - Java Transaction API (JTA) - JSR-907
   - JAXB 2.2
   - JMS
   - Java Mail

Open Source components included in WSO2 Application Server

   - Embedded Apache Tomcat
   - Apache CXF: Supporting JAX-WS and JAX-RS
   - Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
   - Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)
   - Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)
   - Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)
   - Apache Sandesha2 (WS-ReliableMessaging)
   - WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2
   - Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)
   - WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2
   - Apache XML Schema
   - Hazelcast (Group Communications Framework)

Known Issues

   - Application Server related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform -
   https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=11229



Reporting Problems


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

   .

Contact usWSO2 Application Server developers can be contacted via the
mailing list:
Carbon developer mailing list <[email protected]>
Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wso2



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 additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/

For further details, see the WSO2 Carbon documentation at WSO2 Application
Server Documentation<http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/application-server-documentation>

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Application Server
*-The WSO2 Application Server Development Team*
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