WSO2 Governance Registry 4.6.0 Release Notes

23 October 2013

The WSO2 Governance Registry team is pleased to announce the 4.6.0 release of the WSO2 Governance Registry. WSO2 Governance Registry is a user-friendly, but comprehensive enterprise governance, registry and repository solution available under the Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 Governance Registry is pre-loaded with best practices to help users with governance adoption. WSO2 Governance Registry is fully integrated to the WSO2 Carbon platform with the 4.6.0 release. This allows WSO2 Governance Registry users to benefit from the flexibility and extensibility provided by the Carbon platform. WSO2 Governance Registry can be either used as a complete product or used in combination with components of other WSO2 products. User specific components, extensions or UIs to the WSO2 Governance Registry can be easily added as Carbon components.

We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a satisfying experienced user experience with this release.

New Features in This Release

First-class support for WADL
REST API for Registry
CMIS Specification Support
Enhanced RXT functionalities
Notification for Approvals
Asset models for ESB
Lifecycle state transition through Governance API
Offline WSDL Validation
Sample Data Populator
RXT Lifecycle Workflow Integration
LifeCycle in RXT Definition
Pagination for Registry
Enhanced UDDI Support
Registry Check In-client Improvements

Issues Fixed in This Release

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Features of WSO2 Governance Registry

Storing and managing arbitrary resources and collections
Tagging, commenting and rating
Managing users and roles
Authentication and authorization on all resources and actions
Resource / collection versioning and rollback
Advanced search capabilities - tags, users, etc.
Built in media type support for common types (WSDL, XSD)
Built in support for known repository types
Dependency management - maintain relationships between dependent resources for impact analysis
Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types
Pluggable custom UIs for resource types
Activity log and monitoring with filtering support for the activity logs
Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely
Subscribe to resources, collections, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader(Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)
Intuitive User Interface with an Ajax-based Web 2.0 interface
Internationalization
Support for deploying back end and front end (UI) in separate servers
WSDL Tool to import service information from a given WSDL, and WSDL custom-view
WSO2 Governance Registry federation - mounting a remote WSO2 Governance Registry to a specified location
Based on the OSGi based WSO2 Carbon architecture: this is a unification of all Java based products from WSO2
Advanced service governance through, discovery, impact analysis, versioning and automatically extraction of service meta data
Dashboard support with gadgets with design-time and run-time governance information
Advanced Life cycle management with checklists, and scripting support
Validation policies. e.g. WSDL Validation, WS-I Validation and Schema Validation
Eventing and notifications
Supports remote links, symbolic links for resources
Attach remote WSO2 Governance Registry instances, providing one interface for many WSO2 Governance Registry instances
Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers
Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors
Import/export resources and collections
Support for WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss
Provisioning and feature management support for WSO2 Carbon family of products
Support for clustering
Check-in/Checkout tool
Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources
Dynamic Handler configuration, and simulation
Tree-based Resource view
API to govern SOA artifacts
Complete Web Services API for Registry
WS-Discovery support
Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model, with support for adding remote mounts
Support for multiple server instances
E-mail verification for subscriptions
Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions
Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports
Rich text editor for editing text resources
XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations
Support for deploying Carbon Applications (C-App)
Content Search
WebDAV support
Open-Social API
JCR API
UDDIv3 support
Cache-backed Registry
Resource Locking/Retention
Configurable Governance Artifacts
Conflict Resolution for Concurrent Updates
Adding Operators to Advanced Search API (Negation and Range Queries for Property Values)
UUID Support at Resource Level
Hierarchical Subscriptions for Collections
Onetime Email Verification for Subscriptions
URL Referenced Assets
API Assets
Worklist Notification Bar
Task Scheduling for Registry
Support for Source Configuration Management(SCM)
Support for Java Management Extensions(JMX)
XPath Query Support for Search
Lifecycle Audit
Invocation Statistics API
WS API for Governance Artifacts(CRUD Operation Support)
Adding Executor for Services to Publish as APIs

Project Resources

Home page : http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry
Library : http://wso2.com/library/registry/
JIRA-Issue Tracker : https://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY

Installation and Running

Extract the downloaded zip file
Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat file in the /bin directory
Once the server starts, point your Web browser to https://localhost:9443/carbon/
For more information, see the Installation Guide:
Locally : INSTALL.txt
On the web : http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/Governance460/Installation

Known Issues

WSO2 Governance Registry Issue Tracker

Reporting Problems

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

Contact us

WSO2 Governance Registry developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:
For Users: [email protected]
For Developers: [email protected]

Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the WSO2 Governance Registry forum:
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 more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visit http://wso2.com/support/

For more information about WSO2 Governance Registry please see http://wso2.com/products/governance-registry visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Governance Registry

-The WSO2 Governance Registry Development Team