The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 3.0.0 Released!
The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0.0 of
the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
WSO2 ESB is a fast, lightweight and user friendly open source Enterprise
Service Bus (ESB) distributed under the Apache Software License v2.0
<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>. WSO2 ESB allows
system administrators and developers to easily configure message
routing, intermediation, transformation, logging, task scheduling, fail
over routing and load balancing. It also supports transport switching,
eventing, rule based mediation and priority based mediation for advanced
integration requirements. The ESB runtime is designed to be completely
asynchronous, non-blocking and streaming based on the Apache Synapse
<http://synapse.apache.org> mediation engine.
WSO2 ESB 3.0.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon
platform <http://wso2.org/projects/carbon> (Middleware a' la carte), an
OSGi based framework that provides seamless modularity to your SOA via
componentization. This release also contains many new features and a
range of optional components (add-ons) that can be installed to
customize the behavior of the ESB. Further, any existing features of the
ESB which are not required to your environment can be easily removed
using the underlying provisioning framework of Carbon. In brief, WSO2
ESB can be fully customized and tailored to meet your exact SOA needs.
You can download this distribution from http://wso2.org/downloads/esb
and give it a try.
How to Run
1. Extract the downloaded zip
2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
4. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
5. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an
admin and create a user account
6. Assign the required permissions to the user through a role
7. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the
property -DosgiConsole when starting the server. The INSTALL.txt
file found on the installation directory will give you a
comprehensive set of options and properties that can be passed
into the startup script
8. Sample configurations can be started by the wso2esb-samples script
passing the sample number with the -sn option (Please have a look
at the samples guide for more information, on running samples)
New Features of WSO2 ESB 3.0.0
* Priority based mediation through priority executors
* WS-Discovery support and dynamic endpoint discovery
* Message Relay for efficient pass through of messages
* Component manager to install and uninstall features (provisioning
support)
* Common Internet File System (CIFS) support through the VFS transport
* File locking functionality in the VFS transport to support
concurrent polling
* Smooks mediator for efficient message transformation
* Enrich mediator for smart message manipulation
* OAuth mediator for 2-legged OAuth support
* Default endpoint UI
* Hot deploy and hot update configuration elements (sequences,
endpoints, proxy services etc)
* Transport level statistics collection and monitoring
* POX security support
* Dependency detection and alerting for mediation configuration elements
* Mediation statistics API and custom mediation statistics consumers
* Multiple certificate/identity support in the NHTTP transport sender
* Improved logging capabilities for the NHTTP transport
* Templates based proxy service development in the UI
* Dashboard to monitor server environment and runtime
* Easy creation and management capabilities for dynamic sequences
and endpoints
* Pagination to service management, endpoint management and sequence
management UIs
* Obtaining resources like WSDL's through web proxy servers
Key Features of WSO2 ESB
* Proxy services - facilitating synchronous/asynchronous transport,
interface (WSDL/Schema/Policy), message format (SOAP 1.1/1.2,
POX/REST, Text, Binary), QoS (WS-Addressing/WS-Security/WS-RM) and
optimization switching (MTOM/SwA).
* Non-blocking HTTP/S transports based on Apache HttpCore-NIO for
ultrafast execution and support for thousands of connections at
high concurreny with constant memory usage.
* Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and
reloading of the configuration and associated resources (e.g.
XSLTs, XSD, WSDL, Policies, JS configurations ..)
* Easily extendable via custom Java classes (mediator and
command)/Spring configurations, or BSF Scripting languages
(Javascript, Ruby, Groovy, etc.)
* Built in support for scheduling tasks using the Quartz scheduler.
* Load-balancing (with or without sticky sessions)/Fail-over, and
clustered Throttling and Caching support
* WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, Caching & Throttling
configurable via (message/operation/service level) WS-Policies
* Lightweight, XML and Web services centric messaging model
* Support for industrial standards (Hessian binary web service
protocol/ Financial Information eXchange protocol and optional
Health Level-7 protocol)
* Enhanced support for the VFS (File/FTP/SFTP), JMS, Mail transports
with optional TCP/UDP transports and transport switching among any
of the above transports
* Support for message splitting & aggregation using the EIP and
service callouts
* Database lookup & store support with DBMediators with reusable
database connection pools
* WS-Eventing support with event sources and event brokering
* Rule based mediation of the messages using the Drools rule engine
* Transactions support via the JMS transport and Transaction
mediator for database mediators
* Internationalized GUI management console with user management for
configuration development
* Integrated monitoring support with statistics, configurable
logging and tracing
* JMX monitoring support and JMX management capabilities like,
Graceful/Forceful shutdown/restart
Bugs Fixed in This Release
This release of WSO2 ESB comes with a number of bug fixes, both in the
base framework and the ESB specific componenents. All the issues which
have been fixed in ESB 3.0.0 are recorded at following locations:
* Fixed ESB specific issues
<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10305>
* Fixed base framework issues
<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10306>
Known Issues
* Endpoint UI does not support selecting already existing endpoints
as child endpoints when creating load balance/failover endpoints
* HTTP GET requests performed on an endpoint that has a trailing '/'
character, do not work properly
* SOAP tracer does not work when the message relay is activated
* The sequence editor and the built-in XML editors do not work
properly on Google Chrome
All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 ESB 3.0 are reported at following
locations:
* WSO2 ESB 3.0 component issues
<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10302>
* WSO2 ESB 3.0 product issues
<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10303>
* WSO2 ESB 3.0 base framework issues
<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10304>
How You Can Contribute
Mailing Lists
Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.
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Reporting Issues
WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for
the WSO2 ESB using the public JIRA
<http://www.wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA>.
You can also watch how they are resolved, and comment on the progress..
Discussion Forums
Alternatively, questions could be raised using the forums available.
WSO2 ESB Forum <http://wso2.org/forum/187> : Discussion forum for WSO2
ESB developers/users
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 ESB please see
http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus
<http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus/>.
/-- The WSO2 ESB Team// --/
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Ruwan Linton
Technical Lead & Product Manager; WSO2 ESB; http://wso2.org/esb
WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org
phone: +1 408 754 7388 ext 51789
email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 341 3097
blog: http://blog.ruwan.org
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