*WSO2 Business Process Server(WSO2 BPS) 3.5.0 Released* *October 2015*
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 or BPMN 2.0 standards. WS-BPEL is 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. BPMN will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard manner. WSO2 BPS is powered by Apache ODE <http://ode.apache.org/> and Activiti <http://activiti.org/> 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. WSO2 BPS is an opensource product 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. *Key Features* - Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard. - Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with a frequently used subset of BPMN 2.0 standard. - Support for Human Interactions in BPEL Processes with WS-Human Task and BPEL4People. - Managing BPEL / BPMN packages, processes and process instances. - BPEL Extensions and XPath extensions support. - Instance recovery(Only supports 'Invoke' activity) support through management console. - OpenJPA based Data Access Layer For BPEL and Human Tasks. - WS-Security support for business processes. - Support for invoking secured(Using WS-Security) partner services. - Support for HumanTask Coordination. - BPEL / BPMN Package hot update which facilitate Versioning. - Human Task versioning support. - E4X based data manipulation support for BPEL assignments. - Configure external database system as the BPEL / BPMN engine's persistence storage. - Throttling support for business processes. - Transport management. - Internationalized web based management console. - System monitoring. - Try-it for business processes. - SOAP Message Tracing. - Endpoint 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. - Clustering support for BPEL engine. - Process monitoring with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor. - JMX monitoring support. - Comprehensive and customizable web application for managing human tasks. - Comprehensive and customizable web application for managing bpmn instances and user tasks. - Human Task UI form Generation support. - Ability to publish statistics to WSO2 Data Analytics server for analysis. - Reporting dashboards. - Process cleanup tool to remove RETIRED versions of bpel processes. *New Features In This Release* - BPMN support. - Customizable Web Application for Viewing / Managing BPMN Processes and Tasks. - BPMN user task form generation support. - Customizable Web Application for WS-Human Tasks. - BPMN runtime statistics publishing support. - Reporting dashboards for BPMN and Human Tasks. - Many other bug fixes. *Issues Fixed for this release* - WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform - https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12382 *XML & WS-* Standards Support* - BPMN 2.0 - 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-SecurityPolicy - 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 - Apache Derby (Database) - Apache OpenJPA - Embedded Apache Tomcat - Spring Framework - Activiti *Apache Axis2 modules included with WSO2 BPS* - Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security & WS-Trust - Apache Rahas: Supporting WS-SecureConversation - 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 : https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12383 *Reporting Problems* Issues can be reported using the BPS public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BPS *Contact us* WSO2 developers can be contacted via the mailing list: Carbon developer mailing list <[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 Team* - Regards, Firzhan -- *Firzhan Naqash* Senior Software Engineer - Integration Platform Team WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com email: [email protected] <[email protected]> mobile: (+94) 77 9785674 <%28%2B94%29%2071%205247551>*| blog: http://firzhanblogger.blogspot.com/ <http://firzhanblogger.blogspot.com/> <http://suhothayan.blogspot.com/>* *twitter: https://twitter.com/firzhan007 <https://twitter.com/firzhan007> | linked-in: **https://www.linkedin.com/in/firzhan <https://www.linkedin.com/in/firzhan>*
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