The 2.0 version of WSO2 Carbon SOA Platform has been released. With this release, we have also done the all improved WSO2 Governance Registry 3.0, WSO2 Identity Server 2.0, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus 2.1 and WSO2 Web Services Application Server 3.1.
We spent a great deal of effort improving the core database desing of the registry this time. We also spent considerable amount of time to improve the way we have used OSGi in the core framework. We upgraded the Carbon core to use Equinox/P2, the provisioning platform, to help manage the components. The P2 integration takes another step to make the component model more useful to the end user.
And as always, we have done numerous bug fixes in this release.
This release has really taken the next steps in terms of providing a comprehensive SOA platform. The addition of the Gadget component and the BAM component hints the possible business value that the platform could provide for the business users.
The SOA governance features and the way those were designed has been another highlight in this release. The monitoring dashboard, life cycle handling, service and service metadata management has been tested through multiple iterations and with many production scenarios.
The identity management too has been given a boost to governance capabilities of the platform. Among the features added, XACML tends out, but there are many other improvements.
I should also mention the quality assurance effort went into this release. We have been testing with production scenarios from the early stages of the release cycle, and that helped us to identify many corner cases that we might have missed otherwise. Compared to the previous release, I would call this release much more tested and even higher quality than the previous.
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