Davanum (Dims) Srinivas was one of three founders of WSO2 and was the Director of Customer Engagements. He played a pivotal role in getting many Apache and WSO2 projects off the ground. His expertise in Apache Projects has been invaluable to the ramping up of WSO2.
We wish Dims all the very best of luck and look forward to working with him in Apache and other open source arenas.
Version 2.1 of the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) now supports data services for RDBMS, MS-Excel(97-2003),CSV and JNDI data sources. Data stored in these can easily be exposed via a Web service API.
Released last week this version also comes with the WSAS IDE, which integrates the Eclipse IDE, enabling JAVA2WSDL form completion of all round web services cycle and inclusion of off line Web Services Archive build feature with all resources. All the WSAS Preferences now persist through Eclipse Preferences and Debug features can now be configured from preferences as well.
The following tools are available in the WSAS console
These tools are also accessibly from the IDE.
WSO2 WSAS v2.1 is the enterprise ready Web services engine powered by Apache Axis2. It is a lightweight application server for Web services that incorporates leading open source components into a simple, easy-to-use and highly performant package. One of its key features is the Axis1 backward compatibility where you can expose legacy Axis 1.x Web services as Axis2 Web services and engage Axis2's WS-* protocols such as WS-Security and WSRM in front of legacy services.
The latest release can be downloaded here or you can try a live version of it here.
The WSO2 Identity Solution team released version 1.0-beta recently which now includes an identity provider.
This identity provider supports connecting to a JDBC or an LDAP user store to issue information cards to the users in those user stores and to enable those users to log into web applications using the cards they acquired. It issues information cards based on username-token credential and self issued credential. Adding custom claims and mapping them to user attributes in the user store is now available together with revoking of issued information cards and management of trusted replying parties.
Other key features of this release include an Apache HTTPD relying party module and Java Servlet Filter relying party components.
WSO2 Identity Solution is a set of components that enable CardSpace authentication. It can be used to do distributed identity checks and supports both Java servlets based web applications and Apache HTTPD.
Download the latest version here .