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Want to take a look back at the journey of WSO2 WSAS (formerly known as WSO2 Tungsten) running up to its current glorious state? Archived news contains details on each of the WSO2 WSAS versions that were released up to the current version.

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The versions are as follows:

10th October 2007 - WSO2 WSAS 2.1 Released!

New Features In This Release

  • Various bug fixes from WSAS 2.0 release
  • Data services support for RDBMS, MS-Excel(97-2003) and CSV
  • Eclipse IDE integration
    • JAVA2WSDL form completion of all round web services cycle through IDE
    • Inclusion of offline Web Services Archive build feature with all resources
    • Introduction of WSAS Tools from IDE (Validators AAR/MAR, WSDL Converter 1.1->2.0)
    • All the WSAS Preferences now persist through Eclipse Preferences
    • Debug features now can be configured from preferences
    • Various Bug fixes and improvements
  • UI tools
    • WSDL2Java
    • Java2WSDL
    • WSDL 1.1 to WSDL 2.0 converter
    • Try it for public WSDLs available either 1.1 or 2.0 versions
    • AAR/MAR Validators

WS-* Support

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

Open Source components included in WSO2 WSAS/Java

  • 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 Derby (Database)
  • Hibernate (Persistence)
  • Embedded Apache Tomcat
  • Apache Tribes (Group Communications Framework)

Tools

  • AJAX based Management Console with complete administration capability of the server
  • Command line system administration tool
  • WS-Commons TCPMon
  • WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1 to WSDL 2.0 Converter/AAR & Mar Validator and General Try it tools
  • IDE Integration

Apache Axis2 modules included with WSO2 WSAS

  • Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security & WS-Trust
  • Apache Rahas: Supporting WS-SecureConversation
  • Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging
  • Mex: Supporting WS-MetaDataExchange
  • Throttle: For throttling requests
  • Statistics: For gathering & monitoring statistics
  • Tracer: For tracing SOAP requests & responses
  • WSO2 WSAS Administration: For administering Web services
  • XFer: Supporting WS-Transfer
  • XKMS: Supporting XML Key Management Specification

Known Issues

  1. POJO to Web service feature is still at an experimental stage. One can upload jar/zip file and can create an AAR out of it. If you uploaded a jar/zip file which has the semantics of an AAR, when its transformed into AAR its services.xml will be replaced by the generated services.xml. In addition to this, the user cannot give associate any library dependencies or web content with the generated AAR file.
    • Due to limitations in Axis2, method overloading is not supported, and hence the WSDL for services where methods are overloaded cannot be generated. Hence all WSDL based functionality related to services will not work.
  2. WS-Policy support is still in the experimental stage and limited to single port scenarios.
  3. You cannot have two different versions of the Apache Sandesha2 module in the system.
  4. A <parameter name="OmitSOAP12Action">true</parameter> entry has been added to the HTTP & HTTPS transportSenders in order to overcome some issues with some browsers. In case of interoperability failures, please change the value of this parameter to false and retry.
  5. The 'Try It' feature does not work for MTOM enabled services.

23rd July 2007 - WSO2 WSAS 2.0 Released!

Key Features in this Release

  • Data services allow developers to expose data stored in relational databases instantly via a Web services API.
  • IDE integration for Eclipse cuts the time to develop, deploy and debug Web services.
  • Advanced clustering with comprehensive management capabilities, state replication for high availability, along with load balancing and failover.
  • XMKS support provides another means for developers to secure Web-based communications using public key infrastructure (PKI).
  • EJB support makes it possible to expose EJBs as Web services.

WS-* Support

  • SOAP 1.1/1.2
  • WSDL 1.1
  • WSDL 2.0 (Experimental)
  • MTOM, XOP, SOAP with Attachments
  • WS-Addressing
  • WS-Security
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-MetaDataExchange
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-Policy Attachment

Open Source Components

  • Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
  • Apache Axiom
  • 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 Derby (Database)
  • Hibernate (Persistence)
  • Jetty (HTTP server)

05 December 2006 - WSO2 WSAS 1.1 Released!

WS-* Support

  • SOAP 1.1/1.2
  • WSDL 1.1
  • WSDL 2.0 (Experimental)
  • MTOM, XOP & SOAP with Attachments
  • WS-Addressing
  • WS-Security
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-MetaDataExchange
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-Policy Attachment

Open Source Components

  • Apache Axis2 (SOAP)
  • Apache Axiom
  • 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 Derby (Database)
  • Hibernate (Persistence)
  • Jetty (HTTP server)

Key Features

Tools

Note: All the tools are located in WSO2WSAS_HOME/bin

23 May 2006 - WSO2 Tungsten 1.0 Released!

WS-* Support
  • SOAP 1.1/1.2
  • WSDL 1.1
  • MTOM, XOP and SOAP with Attachments
  • WS-Addressing Submission/Final
  • WS-Security
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-Policy Attachment
Open Source Components
  • Apache Axiom
  • Apache Axis2
  • Apache Derby
  • Apache Neethi
  • Apache Rampart
  • Apache Sandesha2
  • Apache Woden
  • Apache WSS4J
  • Apache XmlSchema
  • Jetty
  • Hibernate
Key Features
Tools

Note: All the tools are located in TUNGSTEN_HOME/bin

17 March 2006 - WSO2 Tungsten 1.0 Beta Released!

Key Features In This Release

20 February 2006 - WSO2 Tungsten 1.0 alpha Released!

Key Features in this Release

  • Full support for the key Web services standards: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security
  • Interoperates with Microsoft .NET, Windows Communications Framework (Indigo), IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic
  • A unified approach to supporting SOAP, XML/HTTP, REST, and multi-transport support for SOAP (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, JMS)
  • RSS support makes it easy to manage and monitor your server through your browser or feed aggregator.
  • Unified browser-based administration makes it simple to configure reliability, security and advanced features
  • Available as a standalone lightweight server, or embeddable inside Geronimo, IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLogic.
  • Fully open source with the majority of the source available under the Apache Software License.