The WSO2 ESB team is happy to announce the release of WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Beta 2 just weeks before the full 1.0 version.

Major changed in this release include a quick getting started section on the home page, WSDL endpoints and proxy services support for a target endpoint or sequences.

The ability to define target endpoints, WSDL, sequence for proxy services in line and to create proxy services that simply load-balance or perform fail over without a sequence have also been added.

Other features of the Beta 2 version include,

• Use of YUI tool kit for UI widget rendering and control
• Ability to continue mediation after the use of the send mediator
• Out of the box support for ActiveMQ based JMS
• Support for non-blocking http/s

together with major enhancements to the built-in Registry and the underlying Synapse engine.

Download WSO2 ESB Beta 2 now!

The new release of Apache Axis2/Java, version 1.2, now includes WDSL 2.0 support, including the complete HTTP binding which can be used to describe both RESTful and non-RESTful HTTP services. Axis2 is currently the only implementation that supports WSDL 2.0.

Other major changes since the 1.1 release include, POJO annotation (JSR 181), JAX-WS integration, JAX-WS annotation, un-wrapping (Response), binary serialization (Fast infoset), message formatters, and message builders.

Support is also now provided for Maven2, JSON, EJB Provider, Custom deployer and ADB for union and list.

Download latest version here .