WSO2 Application Server(WSO2 AS) 5.3.0 Release Notes

September 2015

The WSO2 Application Server is an enterprise-ready cloud-enabled application server, powered by Apache Tomcat, and Apache TomEE, it integrates Apache CXF framework. It provides first class support for standard Web applications, JAX-WS/JAX-RS applications and Jaggery scripting applications. Coupled with features of WSO2 Carbon , users can now manage their applications including JAX-WS and JAX-RS to web applications in a unified manner within the management console itself.

Application Server also provides a comprehensive Web services server platform using CXF as its Web services runtime, and provides many value additions on top of this runtime. It can expose services using both SOAP and REST models and supports a comprehensive set of WS-* specifications such as WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Addressing, WS-SecurityPolicy, etc. WSO2 Application Server also has inbuilt support for Jaggery. WSO2 Application Server can be installed on on-premise or any public/private cloud infrastructure and provide unified management console and lifecycle management features which are independent from underlying deployment option.

An open source product, WSO2 AppServer is available under the Apache Software License (v2.0) . This includes all of the extra integration and management functionality as well.

New Features

• JavaEE 6 Web Profile support via TomEE 1.7.2 integration
• Websocket 1.1 API Support as defined by the JSR-356 specification
• Tomcat Virtual Hosts support
• SAML2 Single-Sign-On support for web applications
• WS-Discovery support for CXF JAX-WS and JAX-RS services
• OSGi ServiceLoader Mediator specification support via SPI-Fly


• Removed the data services hosting support from AS. Users can use the WSO2 Data Services Server product to deploy data services.

Key Features

• Support for Servlet 3, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, JSTL 1.2 specifications.
• Full JAX-WS 2.2 and JAX-RS 2.0 Specification support
• Integration of Jaggery - server side scripting framework
• Unified Application listing and management UI for WebApps, JAX-WS/RS, Jaggery
• Multi Tenant support for standalone deployment
• 100% Apache Tomcat compliance runtime
• Lazy loading for web applications and services
• AppServer tooling - AppServer related artifacts can be easily generated using WSO2 Developer Studio
• Clustering support for High Availability and High Scalability
• Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation
• JMX and Web interface based monitoring and management
• WS-* and REST support
• GUI, command line, and IDE based tools for Web service development
• Equinox P2 based provisioning support
• WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1 and try it (invoke any remote Web service)

Issues Fixed for this release

• https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12251

XML & WS-* Standards Support

• SOAP 1.1/1.2
• WSDL 1.1
• WSDL 2.0
• MTOM, XOP & SOAP with Attachments
• WS-Addressing
• WS-Security 1.0/1.1
• WS-Trust
• WS-SecureConversation
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• WS-Policy
• WS-PolicyAttachment
• WS-MetadataExchange

JavaEE Web application Standards Support

• Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 1.1
• Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.2
• Java Servlet 3.0
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2
• Expression Language (EL) 2.2
• Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2
• Java Server Faces (JSF) 2.0
• Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0
• Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.1
• Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (CDI) 1.0
• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) Lite 3.1
• Bean Validation 1.0
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2
• Common Annotations for the Java Platform (JSR-250) 1.1

Open Source components included in WSO2 Application Server

• Embedded Apache Tomcat
• Apache TomEE
• Apache CXF: Supporting JAX-WS and JAX-RS
• Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
• Hazelcast
• Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)
• Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)
• Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)
• WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2
• Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)
• WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2
• Apache XML Schema
• Apache Tribes (Group Communications Framework)

Known Issues

• https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=12250

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at ########TODO https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSAS.

Contact us

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 additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/.

For further details, see the WSO2 Carbon documentation at WSO2 Application Server Documentation.

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