WSO2 Business Process Server 1.1.0 Released!

WSO2 Business Process Server team released the latest version(1.1.0) of WSO2 BPS yesterday 19th November 2009.  As the successor of WSO2 BPS 1.0.1, WSO2 BPS 1.1.0 comes with handful of new features which will make process developer’s life easier.

WSO2 BPS 1.1.0 uses revision of Apache ODE trunk which is going to be the future of Apache ODE BPEL engine as it BPEL engine. In addition to that there are several bug fixes to the Apache ODE like fixing E4X extension support when using OpenJPA data access objects. WSO2 BPS 1.1.0 comes with a completely new integration layer for Apache ODE which integrated ODE with WSO2 Carbon platform. Now the previously unsecured BPEL management API is completely secured based on WSO2 Carbon authentication mechanism and new version has a completely re-written Web service API for managing your BPEL engine. There are some improvements to be done on the management API and those will be available with the upcoming releases.

By leveraging the extension mechanism of new ODE engine, now you can extend WSO2 BPS’s BPEL language by introducing your own extension to BPEL language and deploying them on WSO2 BPS.

This version of WSO2 BPS has the provisioning support based in Equinox P2; now users can extend the BPS by installing features available in WSO2 Carbon P2 repositories. For example by installing mediation feature, you’ll be able to do service mediation using WSO2 BPS.

Here is the list of new features available in WSO2 BPS 1.1.0

• Apache ODE trunk’s revision is used as the BPEL Engine
• New WSO2 Carbon integration layer for Apache ODE
• BPEL Process Versioning Support
• Support for invoking secured(Using WS-Security) partner services.
• Experimental clustering support
• Invoke activity recovery support through management console
• E4X based data manipulation support for BPEL assignments
• BPEL Extension support for extending WS-BPEL language
• Equinox P2 based provisioning support –  extend your BPS instance by installing new P2 features [5].

You can download this release at http://wso2.org/downloads/bps.