JBoss ESB 4.8 Released !

The JBoss ESB team just release version 4.8.  This is now available for download from our project site.

The notable improvements during this process were:

- Performance

- updating to the jUDDI v3.0.1 codebase

- better jUDDI integration through our InVM and RMI transports

- addition of webservice endpoints for jUDDI

- Updating to picketlink 1.0.1

- improved job scheduling through our jBPM scheduler

- Many SOAP proxy improvements

- Many JON management improvements

and not to mention numerous bug fixes.

Check the release notes here.

Congratulations to Kevin Conner and the JBoss ESB Team!

JBoss ESB 4.7 released

Kevin Conner and the JBoss ESB Team announced  the next project release of ESB 4.7.

There are many updates to the codebase, including a number of major additions.  The most notable of these are:

• the inclusion of a UDDI 3 registry through the Apache jUDDI project,
• implementation of a new, servlet based, HTTP gateway
• support for SAML tokens
• XPath based routing
• regexp based routing
• an eventing mechanism to monitor the server.

you can download the JBoss ESB release here.

If you are using the JBoss ESB for the first time I recommend to have a look at the quickstarts, they are located under samples/quickstarts/ directory in the distribution. You will save a lot of time as these examples are implementations of the well known Enterprise Integration Patterns and it is very easy to build on top of them.

The JBoss Tools folks created some eclipse plugins that will help you create, debug and deploy these services on the ESB. You can access those here.

If you have already been using JBoss ESB and want to experiment with new features and improvements of 4.7 then I recommend David Ward’s blog entry: Proxying SOAP Web Services in JBossESB 4.7

Have Fun!