[Mashup-user] FW: [mashup-dev] [ANN] WSO2 Mashup Server 0.1 Released

[Jonathan Marsh]

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
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"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.
	
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Features List
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* 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

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Known Issues
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* 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.


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Upcoming Features
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- - 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

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Reporting Problems
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Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at
https://wso2.org/jira/browse/MASHUP

	
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Contact us
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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