Hi folks,

WSO2 Application Server team is pleased to announce the first alpha release
of WSO2 AS 5.3.0. The AS 5.3.0 Alpha distribution is available at [1]. This
release introduces several major features and improvements.

*New Features*
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* JavaEE 6 Web Profile support via TomEE 1.7.2 integration
* Websocket 1.1 API Support as defined by the JSR-356 specification
* SAML2 Single-Sign-On support for web applications
* Tomcat Virtual Hosts support
* HTTP Session Persistence support
* WS-Discovery support for CXF JAX-WS and JAX-RS services
* OSGi ServiceLoader Mediator specification support via SPI-Fly

* Removed the first class support provided for deploying Axis2 AAR Services
* Removed the data services hosting support from AS. Users can use the WSO2
Data Services Server product to deploy data services.


*Existing **Key Features*
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* 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 WebApps, JAX-WS/RS,
Jaggery
* Multi Tenant support for standalone deployment
* 100% Apache Tomcat compliance runtime
* Lazy loading for web applications and services
* Tooling - Application Server related artifacts can be easily generated
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
* GUI, command line, and IDE based tools for Web service development
* Equinox P2 based provisioning support
* WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1, and UI-based try it (invoke any remote Web
service)

*Issues Fixed in This Release*
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      https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12252

*Known Issues*
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      https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12253


*How You Can Contribute*
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   - Source Code Repository
      - https://github.com/wso2/


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   - *Reporting Issues*

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for
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[1] http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/kasung/as5.3.0-alpha/


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