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

[Tyrell Perera]

Thanks and looking forward to your feedback :)

regards,

Tyrell


Ruwan Linton wrote:
> Looks fine. First impression is very cool. Will give a complete feedback 
> later.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ruwan.
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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Tyrell Perera
Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/
email: tyrell at wso2.com; cell: +94 77 302 2505

"Oxygenating the Web Service Platform."