New York, NY – June 23, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the availability of the open source WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Version 1.7 to support enterprises’ heterogeneous, high-volume service-oriented architecture (SOA) demands. The WSO2 ESB 1.7 offers significant new enhancements to stability and availability—resulting in incredible scalability and error-free connections for high-volume SOA environments, even on standard hardware. Version 1.7 of the WSO2 ESB now integrates closely with the full-featured WSO2 Registry 1.1 for true, enterprise-class SOA governance.

The WSO2 ESB 1.7 is being introduced at the 13th Annual SOA World Conference & Expo East being held June 23-24, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, NY.

The WSO2 ESB 1.7 also adds support for the financial services sector through two standard protocols. The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is a series of messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages, which the WSO2 ESB supports in combination with the QuickFix/J open source project. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard business messaging protocol originally developed for financial services, but also gaining ground in many other industries. The WSO2 ESB 1.7 has been thoroughly tested and is certified to work with the Apache Qpid implementation of AMQP. Using the WSO2 ESB 1.7, developers in the financial services market can leverage their existing investments in these widely adopted protocols.

Cementing the abilities of the WSO2 ESB for mission-critical applications, the clustering support has been enhanced to allow hot updates of a cluster in a continuously live environment.

“The growth of SOA implementations to drive critical business operations is placing new demands on the performance, reliability and governance of Web services,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WSO2. “Our WSO2 ESB 1.7 sets a new standard for meeting those demands through innovative concurrency and clustering. The combination of the WSO2 ESB and WSO2 Registry provides a complete SOA governance solution from design through runtime.”

In scaling tests on a standard dual-processor server, the WSO2 ESB 1.7 handled loads of up to 2,500 concurrent connections without losing a single message. In the same tests, comparable open source ESBs failed to handle more than one hundred concurrent clients without errors.

“SOA is emerging as a backbone in high-transaction volume businesses, driving the need for more scalable ESB technology,” said James Governor, principal analyst and founder of RedMonk. “WSO2 is responding to that demand with its latest release, which focuses on performance, reliability and availability—and tighter integration with its Registry product.”

The WSO2 ESB provides a lightweight platform that can route messages with millisecond overhead and can scale to manage thousands of simultaneous connections—on standard server hardware. Version 1.7 is based on the Apache Synapse ESB 1.2 release launched earlier this month (For more information, visit http://synapse.apache.org ). The WSO2 ESB is a pure open source project that enhances the Apache Synapse ESB with a full graphical management and configuration console, as well as an integrated registry and repository based on the WSO2 Registry 1.1, which also is being launched today. (For more information, see the WSO2 Registry 1.1 press release dated June 23, 2008.)

• Support for high-volume messaging, delivering lossless handling of large messages at high concurrency on standard hardware. The streaming, asynchronous design ensures that the WSO2 ESB can be used to manage any SOA without adding the performance bottlenecks usually associated with XML mediation.
• Improved clustering, providing continuous availability by allowing members of a cluster to be restarted without losing payloads.
• Wide legacy connectivity, including Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), comma-separated values (CSV), and record formats.
• Hessian binary Web service protocol support, enabling high-performance binary Web service routing and management.
• Connection pooling improves database performance and scalability.
• Router mediator enables dynamic routing capabilities.

Built on a standards-based architecture, the WSO2 ESB 1.7 works equally well with WSO2’s products; J2EE, .NET, JMS, and HTTP/S-based systems; and Web services frameworks, such as Apache Axis and Axis2.

The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus 1.7 is available for download today. As a fully open source solution released under the Apache License 2.0, the WSO2 ESB does not carry any software licensing fees. WSO2 offers a range of service and support options for the WSO2 ESB. These include support subscriptions, training, consulting, custom development and development support. For information on service and support packages, visit http://wso2.com .

In conjunction with the WSO2 ESB 1.7 launch, WSO2 will host an educational developer webinar on July 3, 2008 titled, “Introducing the WSO2 ESB 1.7.” More information and registration details can be found at https://wso2.on.intercall.com/confmgr/. ]]> http://wso2.com/about/news/esb-1-7-release/feed/ http://wso2.com/about/news/registry-1-1-release/ http://wso2.com/about/news/registry-1-1-release/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:36:53 +0000 Administrator http://wso2.com/about/news/registry-1-1-release/ WSO2 Registry 1.1 for SOA Governance is Now Integrated with WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

New York, NY – June 23, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the availability of the open source WSO2 Registry, Version 1.1. The WSO2 Registry 1.1 adds comprehensive, out-of-the-box, service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle management. Version 1.1 also includes new features for allowing users to encode their own custom governance rules and policies, as well as validation to ensure that services match corporate industry interoperability standards. Together with the WSO2 Registry’s socially enabled interface, the new features facilitate collaboration in the management, ranking and reuse of enterprise Web services.

The WSO2 Registry 1.1 is being introduced at the 13th Annual SOA World Conference & Expo East being held June 23-24, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, NY.

In addition to being offered as a standalone solution, Version 1.1 of the WSO2 Registry has been integrated into the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 1.7 also being launched today. (For more information, see the WSO2 ESB 1.7 press release dated June 23, 2008.)

“As enterprises automate more of their processes through Web services, there is a much greater need for comprehensive, customizable governance capable of supporting heterogeneous SOA environments,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WSO2. “Version 1.1 of our WSO2 Registry takes the lead in directly addressing these requirements with coding-free set-up, extension points for easier customization, and the performance and scalability that enterprise SOA governance demands.”

The open source WSO2 Registry features a structured registry and repository and Web-based interface. With Version 1.1, the Registry adds out-of-the-box, comprehensive SOA lifecycle management support, including the ability to define custom lifecycles with conditional state transitions. Additionally, the WSO2 Registry 1.1 provides three well-defined extension points that provide a flexible, plug-in approach to linking resources and allowing users to encode their own governance rules and polices. These include “aspects” to define custom behaviors, “filters” to intercept standard behaviors, and “handlers” to decide what to do with them.

Other key features of the Registry 1.1 are:

• Transactional API support to enable the grouping of activities into atomic, consistent isolated and durable (ACID) transactions to guarantee reliable processing.
• Dependency views, which let users track reliance graphs between resources and analyze the impact of changes on dependents.
• Arbitrary association types that link to internal or external resources.
• WSDL validation, including validation of the WS-I Basic Profile specification, to ensure interoperability.
• Enhanced search capabilities to facilitate the ability to search based on tags or advanced criteria.
• Enhanced API, which allows the Registry to be embedded in runtime systems and to support automated governance.

The WSO2 Registry 1.1 is available for download today. As a fully open source solution released under the Apache License 2.0, the WSO2 Registry does not carry any software licensing fees. WSO2 offers a range of service and support options for the Registry. These include support subscriptions, training, consulting, custom development and development support. For information on service and support packages, visit http://wso2.com .

The SD Times 100 is a listing of companies, organizations and individuals, selected by the editors of SD Times, that most broadly "set the agenda" for software development managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and innovation during the past calendar year. For a complete list of winners, visit http://www.bzmedia.com/sdtimes100/.

The SD Times noted that in today’s services-based world, “The promise of SOA is beginning to come true.” Recognizing middleware companies on the SD Times 100 list for their role, the magazine stated, “Our finalists provide the best tools and systems for keeping track of all those services.”

“With its focus on solving real-world software developer demands, we’re honored to have SD Times recognize WSO2 as a leading provider of middleware solutions,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, co-founder and CEO of WSO2. “It is strong validation, not only of our commitment to open source, but also the value our software brings in enabling heterogeneous service-oriented architectures.”

WSO2 has earned other prestigious awards in 2008. The WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) 2.0 received the SearchSOA.com Product of the Year award in the Data Services/Integration category, and IDG’s InfoWorld named WSO2 CTO Paul Fremantle one of InfoWorld’s Top 25 Chief Technology Officers for 2008.

The initiatives were showcased as part of the Microsoft TechEd North America 2008 IT Professionals conference being held June 10-13, 2008 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.

The first initiative, demonstrating the breadth of interoperability across standard Web services—.NET, Java, and C-based platforms such as PHP—was highlighted at today’s keynote presentation by Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft. During the keynote, the StockTrader 2.0 demo composite application service, based on the .NET Configuration Service 2.0 and distributed Apache/WSO2 middleware components, showed how interoperable implementations of Web service protocols allow a seamless mix-and-match of the application’s components, including the:

• User interface: .NET smart client and PHP Web application
• Business processing service layer: .NET and PHP
• Order processing service: .NET, Java and PHP

WSO2’s support for the full WS-Security stacks in both the WSO2 Web Services Application Server, based on Apache Axis2/Java, and the WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP, based on Apache Axis2/C, ensured enterprise-class protection throughout the process.

“More than 70 percent of our customers include Microsoft technology among the platforms supporting their enterprise applications, and they rely on us to create and manage Web services across a range of environments, including Java, C, PHP, Ruby, Spring and Perl,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder and CEO of WSO2. “Our work with Microsoft to extend .NET interoperability adds support for a significant enterprise platform and furthers our commitment to enabling SOAs that capitalize on the heterogeneous environments driving today’s organizations.”

“A top priority is delivering interoperable solutions that enable our customers to harness the many resources and processes powering the enterprise,” said Burley Kawasaki, director of the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. “The interoperability between WSO2’s middleware and .NET builds upon the investments that Microsoft has made with Windows Communication Foundation and will further extend the reach of SOAs across legacy and emerging platforms, providing a new level of Web services-enabled integration and collaboration for our customers.”

The WSO2 collaboration with Microsoft will enable .NET Framework customers to utilize the enterprise-class performance and management of WSO2’s SOA middleware based on Apache open source projects. WSO2 is one of the leading contributors to Apache, with the firm’s engineers equally dedicating their efforts to WSO2 Web services products and related Apache projects. WSO2's commercial support and service offerings cover both WSO2 products and Apache projects. Currently WSO2 contributes to Apache Axis and Axis2, Axiom, Neethi, Kandula, Rampart, Sandesha and Sandesha2, Synapse and WSSJ4.

“We were struck by how the best CTOs combined solid, strategic technology thinking with management prowess to make their successes happen,” said Galen Gruman, executive editor of InfoWorld. “As one of this year's honorees, Paul Fremantle showed how a savvy CTO can make a huge difference in leading a business to success by creating world-class products and mobilizing a team to deliver on a critical business priority.”

Paul Fremantle has led a revolution in the design of the enterprise service bus (ESB). He concurrently spearheaded the development of the WSO2 ESB while playing a central role in the development of Apache Synapse v.1.0 as an Apache Web services PMC member. Apache Synapse, on which the WSO2 ESB is built, is the first full version of Apache’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. The WSO2 ESB extends the flexibility and performance of Synapse by including WSO2’s intuitive GUI and built-in registry. The ultra lightweight WSO2 ESB can route messages with sub-millisecond overhead and scale to manage thousands of simultaneous connections—without changing users’ application code.

“It’s a great honor to be included with the highly innovative individuals being recognized as InfoWorld’s Top 25 CTOs for 2008,” said Paul Fremantle, co-founder and CTO of WSO2. “This prestigious award also highlights the increasingly strategic role of open source Web services software in turning the SOA promise into reality.”

In addition to his role as WSO2 co-founder and CTO, Paul is currently co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee, which is charged with creating the industry standard for reliable message exchange over SOAP. Paul's involvement in Web services and open source goes back to his previous role as a technical staff member at IBM. There, he created the Web Services Gateway, donated code to the original Apache SOAP project to enable access to Enterprise JavaBeans, and led IBM's involvement in the Apache Axis C/C++ project. Paul also has published two books: “Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition,” and “The XML Files.” Paul lives in Emsworth, England with his wife and two children.

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This new version is optimized for SOAP processing with the Guthila parser. Guthila replaces libxml2 as the default parser which is proven to be faster. Guthila is an Apache project and is part of Apache Axis2/C. As its an inbuilt parser Guthila eliminates the external dependency to libxml2.

Another new feature of WSF/C 1.3.0 is better support for REST. It now inherits complete RESTful API from Apache Axis2/C supporting all http verbs and flexible uri mapping to resources.

Security has also been in improved in this release to include SAML 1.1, WS-Trust and WS-SecureConverstion.

For more information on WSO2 WSF/C visit the project home page: http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/c

You can download the latest version here http://wso2.org/downloads/wsf/c

PHP developers can now work with familiar PHP types rather than construct XML messages. While basic WSDL schema was supported earlier, more complex schema constructs support such as SimpleType restricitons, ComplexType restrictions/extensions and attributes have been added.

The wsdl2php code generation tool which helps to auto generate code is another key feature in this release along with WSDL Import support and support for WSDLs with multiple bindings API provided to pick the preferred bindings.

Other additions to WSO2 WSF/PHP include

• HTTP Basic Authentication Support to cover wide a range of authentication.
• SOAP Messages with Attachments support (SWA)
• Custom Security token support

WSO2 WSF/PHP is a complete solution for building and deploying Web services and is the only PHP extension with the widest range of WS-* specification implementations.

It's Key features include secure services and clients with WS-Security support, binary attachments with MTOM, automatic WSDL generation (code first model), WSDL mode for both services and clients (contract first model) and interoperability with .NET and J2EE. To find out more visit the project homepage .

You can download this new release from http://wso2.org/downloads/wsf/php

Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mountain View, CA – May 13, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Web Technologies, 2008” report by Gartner, Inc., which was published April 18, 2008. The Gartner report was authored by David Mitchell Smith, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes, Nicholas Gall, and Daniel Sholler.

According to the Gartner report, “Web communities can provide rich, new interactions among employees, business partners and customers. Web platforms and their architecture provide an adaptable technology model and potentially require significantly less-expensive infrastructure to support.”

"We founded WSO2 to eliminate the barriers to implementing service-oriented architectures that exist with legacy middleware,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder and CEO of WSO2. “We are very honored to have our company and WSO2 Mashup Server included in the ‘Cool Vendors in Web Technologies, 2008’ report from Gartner, one of the world’s premier IT research firms. We believe it is strong validation of the lightweight, heterogeneous approach of our SOA middleware, as well as our commitment to open source to foster adoption and innovation.”

The WSO2 Mashup Server combines the simplicity and richness of mashups with the reusability, security, reliability and governance required for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In doing so, it allows enterprises to empower their Web developers, business analysts, and other power users to develop valuable situational applications. These mashups can be published, shared, rated, tagged, commented upon, and searched to maximize their value to the enterprise. Mooshup.com, a hosted online version of the Mashup Server, provides an open community site for developing, running, and sharing mashups, which can be easily downloaded to or uploaded from any WSO2 Mashup Server.

The Mashup Server is part of WSO2’s comprehensive, open source SOA platform, which enables companies to easily create and manage enterprise-class Web services in today’s heterogeneous service-oriented architectures. Other key products include the WSO2 Web Services Application Server and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, both based on Apache Axis2; WSO2 Web 2.0-enabled Registry: WSO2 Identity Solution utilizing Microsoft CardSpace; and WSO2 Web Services Frameworks for C, PHP, Ruby, Perl and Spring.

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mountain View, CA – April 18, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today the expansion of its management team to advance WSO2’s product initiatives and services for the company’s growing enterprise customer base.

• Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder, has been promoted to CTO from his previous role as vice president of technical sales. Fremantle, who led development of the groundbreaking WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, will spearhead WSO2’s overall product strategy.
• Daniel Brum joins WSO2 as director of technical sales. Most recently as the technical director at MuleSource, Brum brings years of proven success in developing, delivering and supporting open source software. (For more information, see press release, “Daniel Brum Joins WSO2,” also dated April 18, 2008.)
• Samisa Abeysinge has been promoted to director of engineering from his previous role as a senior architect leading development of the WSO2 Web Services Frameworks for C and PHP.
• Sanjaya Karunasena has been promoted to director of services from his former position as an enterprise architect in which he helped establish WSO2’s overall engineering processes.

“As an open source SOA company, WSO2 has placed a priority on building a team of top experts equally focused on innovative software and best-in-class services to support today’s service-oriented architectures,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder and CEO of WSO2. “The strength and depth of our expanded management team builds on this commitment to provide our growing base of enterprise customers with unmatched solutions for successfully implementing their SOAs.”

Colombo, Sri Lanka and Mountain View, CA – April 18, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced today that Daniel Brum has joined WSO2 as director of technical sales. Most recently serving as technical director at MuleSource, Brum brings several years of proven success in developing, delivering and supporting professional open source software. Brum will be based in Toronto, Canada.

Brum is part of WSO2’s expanded management team, which is also being announced today. (For more information, see press release, “WSO2 Expands Management Team,” dated April 18, 2008.)

Brum brings to WSO2 extensive open source technology experience—both as a vendor and an enterprise customer. At MuleSource, he was a lead technical evangelist and technologist working with customers and the engineering teams. Before joining MuleSource, Brum worked with the JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) team as a core developer and architect, and he was the lead behind the corporate Rosetta project, which was donated to JBoss and became the seed for the JBoss ESB. Brum also worked with the pre-sales technical teams at JBoss, helping to evangelize the company’s professional open source model and products. Prior to JBoss, Brum was the head of enterprise applications and architecture with insurance provider Aviva Canada where he introduced open source tools such as Linux, JBoss, and PostGreSQL to the internal development team.

“WSO2 is at the forefront in delivering a comprehensive platform to support enterprises’ heterogeneous service-oriented architectures, which are best served by a flexible, open source approach,” said Brum. “I am excited to join the industry’s leading open source SOA experts at WSO2 in helping companies to realize the strategic benefits of open source SOA implementations—both internally and across their business networks.”

At WSO2, Brum will focus on named accounts in the company’s priority vertical markets and build the company’s business in the Americas.

“From the start, our mission has been to provide innovative and powerful open source software that addresses the real-world SOA demands of enterprise developers and architects,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder and CEO of WSO2. “We are thrilled to have Daniel onboard and look forward to tapping his depth of vendor-side and corporate experience in open source middleware to further extend the success of our customers’ SOA implementations.”

Prior to his roles at MuleSource, JBoss and Aviva Canada, Brum was the CTO of a startup in the late ‘90s, creating services for the intellectual property information technology space. He also worked as a consultant and software architect with companies such as Chubb & Son Insurance, Thomas Cook Americas, Sunlife Financial, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, SAS Argentina, and IBM Canada Footprint Division.