WSO2 Business Process Server(WSO2 BPS) v3.0.0 Alpha Released The WSO2 Business Process Server(BPS) team is pleased to announce the release of 3.0.0 Alpha 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 and WS-Human Task standards. 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. WS-Human Task allows people activities to be integrated with business processes. 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. The WSO2 BPS 3.0.0-Alpha pack could be downloaded from this link<http://people.wso2.com/%7Esanjayav/WSO2BPS-3.0.0-Alpha/>. Key Features - Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard. - Support for Human Interactions in BPEL Processes with WS-Human Task and BPEL4People - Managing BPEL packages, processes, process instances and human task configurations. - BPEL Extensions and XPath extensions support - Instance recovery(Only supports 'Invoke' activity) support through management console - BPEL Instance Illustrator - 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 - BPEL deployment descriptor editor - 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 - WS- Human Task support - WS- BPEL4People support - BPEL Instance Illustrator - BPEL deployment descriptor editor - Improved BPS management console and BPS documentation Issues Fixed for this release - WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform - https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10723 XML & WS-* Standards Support - BPEL4WS 1.1 - WS-BPEL 2.0 - WS-Human Task 1.1 - BPEL4People 1.1 - 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 - WS-Human Task implementation does not support sub tasks and lean tasks . BPEL4People only supports remote tasks and remote notification creation. For a complete list of features to be implemented please refer the list of known issues below. - WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform - https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10722 Reporting Problems - Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BPS Contact us WSO2 BPS developers can be contacted via the mailing lists: *For Users:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *For Developers:* [email protected] 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/ Thank you for your interest in WSO2 BPS *-The WSO2 BPS Development Team* -- Sanjaya Vithanagama WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware cell: +94 71 342 2881
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