WSO2 Application Server(WSO2 AS) 5.2.0 Release Notes

August 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

• J2EE Web Profile support - support for Java Server Faces (JSF), Java Persistence API (JPA), and Java Transaction API (JTA) specifications out-of-the-box.
• Publish Webapp Statistics from Application Server to Business Activity Monitor (BAM)
• Improved JNDI support for Tomcat JNDI resources for Web applications
• Run AS on multiple modes/profiles which includes webapp profile, axis2 service profile etc.
• New Distributed Caching implementation based on Hazelcast
• New Clustering implementation based on Hazelcast
• Synchronous deployment of CApp artifacts to ensure the atomicity of a CApp
• Automated patch application process
• Configuration files read/write support for third party libraries
• CXF version upgraded to 2.7.6
• Jettison version upgraded to 1.3.4
• Tomcat version is 7.0.34

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
• Inbuilt Mashup services support
• 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

• AppServer related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=11272

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-ReliableMessaging
• WS-Policy
• WS-PolicyAttachment
• WS-MetadataExchange
• WS-Transfer
• WS-Eventing

J2EE Web application Standards Support

• Servlet 3.0
• JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.2
• Expression Language (EL) 2.2
• Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2
• Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
• Java Server Faces (JSF) 2.1
• Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0
• Java Transaction API (JTA) - JSR-907
• JAXB 2.2
• JMS
• Java Mail

Open Source components included in WSO2 Application Server

• Embedded Apache Tomcat
• Apache CXF: Supporting JAX-WS and JAX-RS
• Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
• Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)
• Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)
• Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)
• Apache Sandesha2 (WS-ReliableMessaging)
• WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2
• Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)
• WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2
• Apache XML Schema
• Apache Tribes (Group Communications Framework)

Known Issues

• Application Server related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform - https://wso2.org/jira/issues/?filter=11229

Reporting Problems

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

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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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