[ANN] WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus v1.6 released

The WSO2 ESB team is pleased to announce the release of its
version 1.6 of the Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

The WSO2 ESB is an ultra fast, light-weight and versatile Enterprise
Service Bus based on the Apache
Synapse ESB. It allows you to Connect,
Manage and Transform service interactions between Web services,
REST/POX services and Legacy systems. You can easily switch transports
between http/s, JMS, File Systems,
Mail etc, or read/write from Databases, split and aggregate messages
and support declarative enforcement of QoS aspects such as WS-Security
etc, and also switch between message formats such as SOAP 1.1/1.2,
PoX/REST, Text, Binary, MTOM and SwA.

The WSO2 ESB is a fully open source product and all development
activities takes place openly, and is released under the Apache
Software License v2.0. It is based on the popular Apache Synapse ESB
and ships with a graphical management and administration console that
allows easy configuration, development and monitoring, and an
integrated Registry/Repository. 

The core features of the WSO2 ESB includes:

    * Proxy services / Service mediation and Message mediation

    * Support for Non-blocking http/s, JMS, Apache VFS (s/ftp, file,
zip/tar/gz, webdav, cifs..), POP3/IMAP/SMTP transports

    * Support for SOAP 1.1/1.2, PoX/REST, Text and Binary payloads

    * Support for scheduled task execution and management

    * Support for custom extensions in Java through custom mediators,
POJO Classes and Java Command classes

    * Support for Apache BSF Scripting languages such as (Javascript,
Ruby, Groovy..etc)

    * Support for clustered deployment with pinned services and tasks

    * Throttling, Caching, Load balancing and Failover support

    * Support for declarative WS-Security and WS-Policy attachment with
Apache Rampart

    * Integrated Registry/Repository with support for external
Registries

New features of the v.1.6 release includes:

    * Clustered deployment support 

        - Clustered support built-in for the Cache/Throttle
Mediators

        - Ability to pin Proxy services or a Tasks to server
instances on a cluster

    * Maintainance mode support for the HTTP/S transports

        - Allows a node to stop accepting new connections while
continuing processing of already accepted messages

    * JMX Monitoring support

    * Callout Mediator for blocking service calls to be implemented
in a simple way

    * Improved JMS/VFS transports

    * Improved REST/POX support

    * Annotations support for POJOCommand mediator

Useful Links

    Download WSO2 ESB - http://wso2.org/downloads/esb/

    Quickstart
Guide 

    Installation
Guide 

    Administration
Guide 

    Samples
Guide

    Documentation
Index

Contribute to WSO2 ESB

    SVN: http://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/esb/java/

    JIRA: http://wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA

    User list: esb-java-user@...

    Developer list: esb-java-dev@...

    Web Forum: http://wso2.org/forum/187

Training

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs, including
training on general Web services as well as WSO2 ESB, Apache Synapse
and Axis2, Data Services and a number of other products. For additional
support information please refer to
http://wso2.com/training/course-catalog/

Support

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support
programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business

hours, to premium 24x7 phone support. For additional support
information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/ 

For more information on WSO2 ESB visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank
(http://wso2.org)

Thank You

The WSO2 ESB Development Team