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

Fri Jul 6 23:20:00 PDT 2007

Ajith Ranabahu wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Good job and great progress. 
Thanks :)
>Please don't let my comments dishearten you
Not at all ;-)..
> but I did run into some problems when trying to play with it.
> 
>  I just downloaded the thing and tried running the batch file (in my
> windows box). It mysteriously failed and I had to change the startup
> script to see that it is throwing a weird classNotFoundException since I
> had the QTJava.zip in classpath. It will be great if we can have some
> troubleshooting support  - since it used a seperate shell with 'start'
> that shell just appeared and vanished making it really difficult to
> figure out.
Yeah.. We always had the debate of whether to keep or remove the start.. It has advantages (like
ability to reuse your command shell) as well as disadvantages as above.. But I think your usecase
convinced me to remove that from our future releases..
Also we are hoping to have the installers done for the 0.2 :)..

> Also it seems that you always have to run he chpasswd script to set an
> admin password ? Whether there is a default username/password already
> setup is not in the readme.
Yeah... This was a last minute change.. Earlier admin/admin was there on top of the login window..
We are going to put admin/admin in big bold letters in the download page..

> Lastly the link to online documentation
> http://wso2.org/project/mashup/0.1/docs/docs_index.html is a 404. The
> correct link is http://wso2.org/project/mashup/0.1/docs/index.html
Trying to get a redirect ASAP.. Hopefully it'll work...

Thanks a lot for the initial feedback.. We awaits your much more detailed feedback on the backend
functionality too :)..

thanks,
Thilina
> 
> Ajith
> 
> 
> Tyrell Perera wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>> 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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