Axis2 Based Web Services Application Server, WSO2 WSAS 2.2 Released!

Submitted on January 23, 2008 - 11:34. Story :

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The WSO2 WSAS team is pleased to announce the release of the WSO2 WSAS 2.2. WSO2 WSAS is an enterprise ready Web services engine powered by Apache Axis2 release under the Apache Software License 2.0.

This release can be downloaded from http://wso2.org/downloads/wsas

Maven2 binary distribution download

Group Id : org.wso2.wsas
Artifact Id : wso2wsas
Version : 2.2
Type : zip
WSO2 Maven2 Repository URL : http://dist.wso2.org/maven2/

Maven2 source distribution download

Group Id : org.wso2.wsas
Artifact Id : wso2wsas
Version : 2.2
Type : zip
Classifier : src
WSO2 Maven2 Repository URL : http://dist.wso2.org/maven2/

From the WSO2 WSAS 2.2 - Release Note - 22nd Jan 2008

WSO2 WSAS is an enterprise ready Web services engine powered by Apache Axis2 and which offers a complete middleware solution. It is a lightweight, high performing platform for Service Oriented Architectures, enabling business logic and applications.
Bringing together a number of Apache Web services projects, WSO2 WSAS provides a secure, transactional and reliable runtime for deploying and managing Web services.

Key Features

Data services support - Expose you enterprise data as a services in a jiffy
WSAS IDE - Eclipse IDE integration
Clustering support for High Availability & High Scalability
Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation and XKMS
EJB service provider support - Expose your EJBs as services
Axis1 backward compatibility - Deploy Axis1 services on WSAS & Engage advanced WS-* protocols in front of legacy services
JMX & Web interface based monitoring and management
WS-* & REST support
GUI, command line & IDE based tools for Web service development

New Features In This Release

Improved Data Services support including New & improved UI, and database connection pooling
WS-Security 1.1 support
Improved clustering support
Improved JSR-181 & JAXWS support
JMX based monitoring
Graceful shutdown & restart of the server
Serve all pending requests before shutting down or restarting the server
Improvements to the Management Console
Various bug fixes to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart & WSAS

Data Services - Bringing Enterprise Data to Web

Service enable data locked in enterprise data sources in no time
Zero code. Simple descriptor file describes the data to service mapping
Controlled access to your data
Customizable XML output
Benefit from REST & WS-* support
Built-in Connection pooling support
Supports exposing Stored procedures & functions
Built-in caching
Throttling - to ensure your database is never overloaded.
Easy configuration via graphical console
Test your services via Try-it tool

Training

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs, including training on general Web services as well as WSO2 WSAS, Apache 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.