WSO2 Web Services Application Server(WSO2 WSAS) 2.2
Release Notes
22nd January 2008
WSO2 WSAS is the Enterprise ready Web services engine powered by Apache Axis2.
It is a lightweight application server for Web services that
incorporates leading open source components into a simple, easy-to-use and
highly performant package.
It supports Java components as services using both SOAP and REST models.
Web services support include WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation,
WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-SecurityPolicy and more,
giving a fully secure and reliable infrastructure that interoperates with both
J2EE and .NET frameworks using open standard protocols.
WSO2 WSAS is built on Apache Axis2, the popular Web services framework
mainly developed by WSO2 engineers. WSO2 WSAS provides many value additions on top of
Axis2,
making it a more enterprise ready product. It also integrates other core Apache Web
services projects such as Apache Axiom, Apache Rampart, Apache Sandesha2
, and Apache Neethi to form a production quality, comprehensive Web
services server platform.
An open source product, WSO2 WSAS is available under the
Apache
Software
License (v2.0)
. This includes all of the extra integration and management
functionality as well.
Key Features
- Data services support - Expose you enterprise data as a services in a jiffy
- WSAS IDE - Eclipse IDE integration
- Clustering support for High Availability & High Scalability
- Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation and
XKMS
- EJB service provider support - Expose your EJBs as services
- Axis1 backward compatibility - Deploy Axis1 services on WSAS & Engage advanced
WS-* protocols in front of legacy
services
- JMX & Web interface based monitoring and management
- WS-* & REST support
- GUI, command line & IDE based tools for Web service development
New Features In This Release
- Improved Data Services support including New & improved UI, and database
connection pooling
- WS-Security 1.1 support
- Improved clustering support
- Improved JSR-181 & JAXWS support
- JMX based monitoring
- Graceful shutdown & restart of the server
Serve all pending requests before shutting down or restarting the server
- Improvements to the Management Console
- Various bug fixes to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart & WSAS
Data Services - Bringing Enterprise Data to Web
- Service enable data locked in relational databases, CSV & Excel files in no
time
- Zero code. Simple descriptor file describes the data to service mapping
- Controlled access to your data
- Customizable XML output
- Benefit from REST & WS-* support
- Built-in Connection pooling support
- Supports exposing Stored procedures & functions
- Built-in caching
- Throttling - to ensure your database is never overloaded.
- Easy configuration via the graphical console
- Test your services via the Try-it tool
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
- XKMS
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)
- Spring Framework
Tools
- AJAX based Management Console with complete administration capability
of the server
- WS-Commons TCPMon
- WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1 to WSDL 2.0 Converter/AAR & Mar Validator and Try
it(invoke any remote Web service)
- 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
- 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 it's transformed into
an AAR, its services.xml will be replaced by the generated services.xml. In
addition to this, the user cannot 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 such services
will not work.
- WS-Policy support is limited to policy expressions with a single policy alternative.
- You cannot have two different versions of the Apache Sandesha2 module
in the system.
- Persistent RM is still in the experimental stage
- 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.
- The 'Try It' feature does not work for MTOM enabled services.
- Cannot connect to a JMX service using a JMX client tool such as jconsole from a remote
machine
when the server is running on Linux. See
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6209663.
To rectify this, you should edit the /etc/hosts file on the server machine and set
the correct IP
address.
- Data Services, Axis1 services, Javascript services & POJO services cannot be
deployed using the URL-based repository configuration
Reporting Problems
Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at
https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSAS
Contact us
WSO2 WSAS developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
For Users:
wsas-java-user@wso2.org
For Developers:
wsas-java-dev@wso2.org
For details on subscriptions see
http://www.wso2.org/projects/wsas/java#mail
Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the WSAS forum:
Forum
http://www.wso2.org/forum/184
Training
WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs, including
training on general Web services as well as WSO2 WSAS, Apache Axis2, Data Services
and a number of other products.
For additional support information please refer to
http://wso2.com/training/course-catalog/
Support
WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support
programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business
hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.
For additional support information please refer to
http://wso2.com/support/
For more information on WSO2 WSAS, visit the
WSO2 Oxygen Tank
How to do various things with WSAS-
WSAS HOWTO Series
Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSAS
-The WSO2 WSAS Development Team