WS02 upgrades open-source ESB
12 Nov 2007 - 10:04:09

Paul Krill Fri Nov 9, 2:25 PM ET San Francisco - Emphasizing SOA deployments, WSO2 will upgrade its open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) next Tuesday with such features as a scheduler and XQuery support. The Apache-licensed WSO2 ESB 1.5 can run scheduled tasks and offers improvements for caching and performance, the company said. Message augmentation using standard databases is featured, as is support for a POJO (plain old Java object) model. "It's a very lightweight, high-performance ESB," featuring a graphical management console, said Paul Fremantle, vice president of technical sales at WSO2. "The main purpose of this [product] is doing simple, fast mediation of XML messages, Web services messages, and non-XML," Fremantle said. The ESB is being used, for example, by a hauling company that deploys it to connect thousands of mobile terminals inside trucks to a logistics management system, he said. The built-in scheduler in version 1.5, based on the open-source Quartz project, allows for setting up tasks to run at specific times. Users no longer need to write their own code for this. XQuery support in version 1.5 makes it easier to do XML transformations and extract data from XML, Fremantle said. Another highlight is geared to file formats. ??"One of the things that we've really ramped up in this release is support for existing legacy formats," such as FTP, Zip files, and Jar files, said Fremantle. Users can bridge between Web services, Java Message Service,...

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