WSO2 Application Server(WSO2 AS) 5.1.0 Release Notes

March 2013

The WSO2 Application Server is an enterprise-ready cloud-enabled application server, powered by Apache Tomcat and also integrates Apache Axis2 and Apache CXF frameworks. It provides first class support for standard Web applications, JAX-WS/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 Axis2 and CXF as its Web services runtimes and provide many value additions on top of service 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-Reliable Messaging, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy, etc. WSO2 Application Server also has inbuilt support for Mashup services and WSO2 Data services. WSO2 Application Server can be installed on on-premise or any public/private cloud infrastructure and provide unified management console and lifestyle management features which are independent from underlying deployment option.

WSO2 Application Server is a part of WSO2 Stratos cloud platform (PaaS) and hosted offering of WSO2 Application Server as a service can be accessed from here https://management.appserver.stratoslive.wso2.com.

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 In This Release

Key Features

Issues Fixed for this release

XML & WS-* Standards Support


J2EE Web application Standards Support

Open Source components included in WSO2 Application Server

Known Issues

Reporting Problems

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

Contact us

WSO2 Application Server developers can be contacted via the mailing list:
Carbon developer mailing list
Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the stackoverflow:
Forum http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wso2

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.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Application Server

-The WSO2 Application Server Development Team