WSO2 Web Services Application Server(WSO2 WSAS) 1.1 Release Notes
December 5th, 2006
WSO2 WSAS 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 full 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. It integrates other core
Apache Web services projects such as Apache Axiom, Apache Rampart,
Apache Sandesha2 ∓ 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
functionalities as well.
WSO2 WSAS can be used as a standalone server or within a J2EE
compliant servlet container. It also contains client components required to
communicate with services. The support for WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Security
means that WSO2 WSAS is ideal for hosting B2B solutions, or building
enterprise class integrated applications.
Features
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 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)
- Jetty (HTTP server)
Tools
- AJAX based Management Console with complete administration
capability of the server
- Command line system administration tool
- WS-Commons TCPMon
- WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL tools
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
Known Issues
- The AJAX dynamic client feature is still at an experimental stage. It
has been successfully tested for simple types, simple type arrays and complex
types but we still do not support complex type arrays.
- 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.
- Once in a while user might encounter the message
"Your session has expired please login". When this happens, you will be
automatically logged out. The user can re-login and carry on with
his work.
- WS-Policy support is still in the experimental stage and limited to
single port scenarios.
- You cannot have two different versions of the Apache Sandesha2 module
in the system.
For more information on WSO2 WSAS, visit the
WSO2 Oxygen Tank
Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSAS
-The WSO2 WSAS Development Team