[mashup-dev] [ANN] WSO2 Mashup Server 0.1 Released

[Ruwan Linton]

Looks fine. First impression is very cool. Will give a complete feedback 
later.

Thanks,
Ruwan.
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From: "Thilina Gunarathne" <thilina at wso2.com>
To: <mashup-dev at wso2.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 7:05 PM
Subject: [mashup-dev] [ANN] WSO2 Mashup Server 0.1 Released


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> The WSO2 Mashup Server team is pleased to announce the release of the WSO2 
> Mashup
> Server v0.1.
>
> This release can be downloaded from 
> http://dist.wso2.org/products/mashup/0.1/
>
>
> WSO2 Mashup Server - v0.1 - Release Note - 6th July 2007
> ======================================================================
> "Create, deploy, and consume Web services Mashups in the simplest fashion"
>
> The WSO2 Mashup Server is a powerful yet simple and quick way to tailor
> Web-based information to the personal needs of individuals and 
> organizations.
> It is a platform for consuming data from a variety of sources including 
> Web
> Services, HTML pages, feeds, and processing and combining it with other 
> data
> using Javascript with E4X XML extensions. The result is then exposed as a 
> new
> Web service with rich metadata and artifacts to quickly build rich user
> interfaces.
>
> Eventually WSO2 Mashup Server will also become an ecosystem of 
> community-developed
> services that will broaden the palette of capabilities for mashups and 
> distributed
> applications.
>
> WSO2 Mashup Server is released under the Apache License v2.0
>
> Check project Home page http://www.wso2.org/projects/mashup for additional 
> information.
>
> - -------------------------- 
> Features List
> ==========================
> * Hosting of mashup services written using JavaScript with E4X XML 
> extension
>    - Simple file based deployment model
> * JavaScript annotations to configure the deployed services
> * Auto generation of many resources for the deployed mashups
>    - JavaScript stubs that can be used to access the mashup service by 
> clients
>    - TryIt functionality to try out the mashup service
>    - WSDL1/WSDL2/XSD documents to describe the mashup service
>    - API documentation
>    many more...
>
> * Ability to bundle a custom user interface for the mashups
> * Many useful JavaScript Hostobjects that can be used when writing mashups
>    - WSRequest : invoke services from the mashup services
>    - File : File storage/manipulation functionality.
>    - System : Set of system specific utility functions.
>    - Session : Ability to share objects across different service 
> invocations.
>    - Scraper (Experimental) : Extract data from HTML pages and present in 
> XML format.
>    - APPClient (Experimental) : Atom Publishing Protocol client to
>      retrieve/publish Atom feeds with APP servers
>
> * Mashup Server Management console to easily manage the mashups
> * Ability to share the deployed mashups with other WSO2 Mashup servers
> * Mashup sharing community portal (mashups.wso2.org) to share and host 
> your
>  mashups - going live in the second week of July 2007
>
> - -------------------------
> Known Issues
> =========================
> * Management Console was tested only on IE 6/7 & Firefox 1.5/2.0.
> * Inter-service dependencies using the dynamically generated stubs may 
> give
> deployment time errors. Workaround would be to save a local copy of the 
> stub
> in to the dependent service.
> * APPClient host object is experimental.
> * JSON support is experimental.
>
>
> - ---------------------------------
> Upcoming Features
> =================================
> - - Improved databinding and type annotation support
> - - Improved functionality and testing of the Scraper host object
> (e.g. make xpath work)
> - - Improved integration and community support features with
> mashups.wso2.org.
> - - Improved MTOM, WS-Addressing, and HTTP binding support.
> - - Improved ATOM/RSS support
> - - Improvements to the mashup creation wizard and the editor in the 
> management console
> - - Tools to generate screen scraper configurations and to browse RSS/ATOM 
> feeds
> - - Mashup access statistics monitoring tools
>
> - ------------------------
> Reporting Problems
> ========================
>
> Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at
> https://wso2.org/jira/browse/MASHUP
>
>
> - ------------------------ 
> Contact us
> ========================
>
> WSO2 Mashup Server developers can be contacted via mailing lists:
> For Users : mashup-user at wso2.org
> For Developers : mashup-dev at wso2.org
> For details on subscriptions see http://www.wso2.org/projects/mashup#mail
>
> Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the forums:
> For Users :  http://www.wso2.org/forum/315
> For Developers : http://www.wso2.org/forum/226
>
>
> Thanks,
> - - WSO2 Mashup Server Team
>
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