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

Open Source components included in WSO2 WSAS/Java

Tools

Apache Axis2 modules included with WSO2 WSAS

Known Issues

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. WS-Policy support is still in the experimental stage and limited to single port scenarios.
  5. 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