WSO2 Registry 1.1

Open Source WSO2 Registry 1.1 Released

June 22, 2008.

The WSO2 Registry team is pleased to announce the release of its version 1.1.

The WSO2 Registry is a hub for managing data in a web-friendly and community-enabled way. It was built with enterprise metadata for SOA in mind, but really it's up to you - the Registry can hold any kind of 'stuff' including images, service descriptions, text files, office documents, and every resource you put in the Registry becomes a center for social activity.

Eschewing the complexity (and WS-* focus) of specs like UDDI, our Registry uses the Atom Publishing Protocol (via Apache Abdera) to offer a standard and RESTfully simple remote interface, which can be accessed easily by custom code, feed readers, and even browsers.

The Registry has been designed both to encourage 'grass-roots' community around your data and also to allow for IT-friendly governance. A full feature list follows. We hope you'll find many uses for it, and that you'll share them with us as we work to make it even better!

The release can be obtained from: http://wso2.org/downloads/registry

WSO2 Registry 1.1 Features

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 WSDL and Schema validation

Built in support for WSI validation

Dependency management — maintain relationships between dependent resources

Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types

Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers

Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors

Activity log and filtering support for the activity logs

Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely

Subscribe to directories, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)

Java client for remote access via APP

Embedded and WAR deployments

Web based user interface with Web 2.0 look and feel

Major Changes From Last Release

Performance improvements

Change from auto-versioning collections to explicit checkpointing

Lifecycle/Aspect support

Much improved WSDL handling, validation, and WS-I validation

Support for transaction handling

Generic typed associations

API improvements, including streamlined Filter/Handler plugins

Bug fixes

Known Issues

Log entries do not persist across resource rename/copy right now.
See http://wso2.org/jira/browse/REGISTRY-425

Product Information

Home page: http://www.wso2.org/projects/registry

User guide http://wso2.org/wiki/display/registry/WSO2+Registry+User+Guide

Reporting Problems

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

Getting in Touch

The WSO2 Registry community can be contacted via mailing lists:

For Users: registry-user@wso2.org

For Developers: registry-dev@wso2.org

For details on subscriptions: http://www.wso2.org/projects/registry

Questions can also be raised in this forum: http://wso2.org/forum/351

Collaboration

As an open-source project, we welcome not only feedback, but active collaboration. If you've got ideas for features, comments on things that should work differently, patches, or if you'd simply like to hear what others are doing with the project, please come join us. We look forward to meeting you.

Enjoy the WSO2 Registry!
WSO2 Registry Team

[Source from Lahiru Sandakith's Web Log]

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive.

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