WSO2 MB 1.0.2 Released

The WSO2 Message Broker (MB) 1.0.2 Released!

28 October 2011

The WSO2 MB team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.2 of the Open Source Message Broker (MB).

WSO2 Message Broker (WSO2 MB) is to be your Message Broker System. Our ultimate goal is to provide you a reliable message brokering system with security.

MB 1.0.2 supports both publish/subscribe feature which publish messages to topics and subscribe to topics and Message box feature which store messages in an intermediate location to be consumed by the owner of the messagebox.

WSO2 MB 1.0.2 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform , and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those features without any trouble. In other words, MB can be customized to your SOA needs.

You can download this distribution from http://wso2.org/downloads/message-broker and give it a try.

Key Features of WSO2 Message Broker

WSO2 Message Broker brings messaging and eventing capabilities into your SOA framework. This latest addition to the WSO2 family of products possesses following key features.

  • WS-Eventing
  • Message store based on Amazon SQS API
  • JMS Pub/Sub and Queuing

The underlying messaging framework of the WSO2 Message Broker is powered by Apache Qpid, one of the leading Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) messaging engines available today.

The Message Broker is compliant with the latest WS-Eventing specification. It's easy-to-use Amazon SQS API provides a standard interface for your message queuing requirements.

The underlying JMS engine handles WS-Eventing/JMS synchronisation that enables exposing and consuming your events using two different standard API's.

Project Resources

Installation and Running

  1. Extract the downloaded zip
  2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
  3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
  4. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
  5. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin and create a user account
  6. Assign the required permissions to the user through a role
  7. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property -DosgiConsole when starting the server. The INSTALL.txt file found on the installation directory will give you a comprehensive set of options and properties that can be passed into the startup script

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

Reporting Issues

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for the WSO2 MB using the public JIRA.

You can also watch how they are resolved, and comment on the progress..

Discussion Forums

Alternatively, questions could be raised using the forums available.

WSO2 MB Forum : Discussion forum for WSO2 MB developers/users

Support

We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology.

For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visit http://wso2.com/support/

For more information on WSO2 MB Please see http://wso2.com/products/message-broker/, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Message Broker.

-- The WSO2 MB Team --