*WSO2 Carbon Kernel 4.4.0 Beta 1 is Released!!!*

WSO2 Carbon team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the WSO2
Carbon Kernel 4.4.0.

WSO2 Carbon redefines middleware by providing an integrated and
componentized middleware platform that adapts to the specific needs of any
enterprise IT project - on premise or in the cloud. 100% open source and
standards-based, WSO2 Carbon enables developers to rapidly orchestrate
business processes, compose applications and develop services using WSO2
Developer Studio and a broad range of business and technical services that
integrate with legacy, packaged and SaaS applications.

WSO2 Carbon kernel, the lean, modular, OSGi-based platform, is the base of
the WSO2 Carbon platform. It is a composable server architecture which
inherits modularity and dynamism from OSGi framework. WSO2 Carbon kernel
can be considered as a framework for server development. All the WSO2
products are composed as a collection of reusable components running on
this kernel. These products/components inherit all the core services
provided by Carbon kernel such as Registry/repository, User management,
Transports, Caching, Clustering, Logging, Deployment related features.



*What's New In This Release*


   - Java7/Java8 support - the new kernel can now be compiled and run on
   both Java7 and Java8.
   - Tomcat upgrade - Tomcat is upgraded to version 7.0.59.
   - Tenant Eager Loading - WSO2 Carbon Kernel can now be configured to
   load specified set of tenants at server start-up.



*Key Features*


   - Composable Server Architecture - Provides a modular, light-weight,
   OSGi-based server development framework.
   - Carbon Application(CApp) deployment support.
   - Multi-Profile Support for Carbon Platform - This enable a single
   product to run on multiple modes/profiles.
   - Carbon + Tomcat JNDI Context - Provide ability to access both carbon
   level and tomcat level JNDI resources to applications using a single JNDI
   context.
   - Distributed Caching and Clustering functionality - Carbon kernel
   provides a distributed cache and clustering implementation which is based
   on Hazelcast- a group communication framework
   - Pluggable Transports Framework - This is based on Axis2 transports
   module.
   - Registry/Repository API- Provide core registry/repository API for
   component developers.
   - User Management API  - Provides a basic user management API for
   component developers.
   - Logging - Carbon kernel supports both Java logging as well as Log4j.
   Logs from both these sources will be aggregated to a single output
   - Pluggable artifact deployer framework - Kernel can be extended to
   deploy any kind of artifacts such as Web services, Web apps, Business
   processes, Proxy services, User stores etc.
   - Deployment Synchronization - Provides synchronization of deployed
   artifacts across a product cluster.
   - Ghost Deployment - Provides a lazy loading mechanism for deployed
   artifacts</li>
   - Multi-tenancy support - The roots of the multi-tenancy in Carbon
   platform lies in the Carbon kernel. This feature includes tenant level
   isolation as well as lazy loading of tenants.



You can download the Beta pack from the following location.

   - wso2carbon-4.4.0-beta1.zip
   
<http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/jayanga/carbon/release-4.4.0/wso2carbon-4.4.0-beta1.zip>



*Fixed Issues*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12181



*Known Issues*

   - https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON/fixforversion/11640



*How to Contribute*

   - WSO2 Carbon kernel code is hosted in GitHub.
   - The GIT repository is  https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/
   - Carbon 4.4.0 Beta release tag is
   https://github.com/wso2/carbon4-kernel/releases/tag/v4.4.0-beta1
   - Please report issues at Carbon JIRA.
   https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON



*Contact Us*

WSO2 Carbon developers can be contacted via following mailing lists:

   - Carbon Developers List: [email protected]
   - Carbon Architecture List: [email protected]


Thank for your interest in WSO2 Carbon Kernel.

*--The WSO2 Carbon Team--*


*Jayanga Dissanayake*
Senior Software Engineer
WSO2 Inc. - http://wso2.com/
lean . enterprise . middleware
email: [email protected]
mobile: +94772207259
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