The WSO2 Message Broker (MB) 2.0.1 Released!
The WSO2 Message Broker team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.1 of the Open Source Message Broker (MB).
WSO2 Message Broker (WSO2 MB) 2.0.1 is fast, lightweight and user friendly open source distributed message brokering system under the Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 MB allows system administrators and developers to easily configure jms queues and topics which could be used in message routing, message stores, message processors. It also supports transport ws eventing. WSO2 MB is compliant with Advanced Message Queueing Protocol Version 0-91 and Java Message Service Specification version 1.1.
WSO2 MB 2.0.1 is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon platform (Middleware a' la carte), an OSGi based framework that provides seamless modularity to your SOA via componentization. This release also contains many new features and a range of optional components (add-ons) that can be installed to customize the behavior of the MB. Further, any existing features of the MB which are not required to your environment can be easily removed using the underlying provisioning framework of Carbon. In brief, WSO2 MB can be fully customized and tailored to meet your exact SOA needs.
You can download this distribution from http://wso2.org/downloads/message-broker
How to Run
- Extract the downloaded zip
- Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
- Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
- Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
- Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin
- 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
New Features of WSO2 MB 2.0.1
The major newly introduced feature of this MB release is support for distributed message brokering. This release is backed with newly invented Andes distributed message brokering system which use cassandra as its storage.
Key Features of WSO2 Message Broker
WSO2 Message Broker brings messaging and eventing capabilities into your SOA framework. Message Broker contains all the previously available features except SQS support. Those are :
- JMS Queuing
- JMS Pub/Sub
- WS-Eventing
The underlying JMS engine handles WS-Eventing/JMS synchronisation that enables exposing and consuming your events using two different standard API's.
Project Resources
- Home page: http://wso2.com/products/message-broker/
- Library: http://www.wso2.org/library/mb
- Wiki: http://www.wso2.org/wiki/display/mb/java
- JIRA-Issue Tracker: https://wso2.org/jira/browse/MB
Bugs Fixed in This Release
This release of WSO2 MB comes with a number of bug fixes, both in the base framework and the MB specific components. All the issues which have been fixed in MB 2.0.1 are recorded at following locations:
Known Issues
All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 MB 2.0.1 are reported at following locations:
How You Can Contribute
Mailing Lists
Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.
- Developer List : carbon-dev@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
- User List : mb-user@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
Reporting Issues
WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for the WSO2 MB using the publicJIRA.
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 --