Tuesday, July 22, 2008

WS-Security

A really good presentation on WS-Security for a beginner.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~acw/security/doc/Tutorials/WS-Security.ppt

Monday, July 21, 2008

WSO2 Mashup Server released its newest version - v1.5 !!!

WSO2 Mashup Server version 1.5 was released yesterday 21, Jul 2008.


The new features for the release are ;
  • Request object
  • Ability to secure hosted mashups using a set of commonly used security scenarios.
  • Ability to call secured services using the WSRequest host object
  • Integrated Data Services Support (expose data locked up in Databases, Excel spreadsheets and CSV files with ease)
  • OpenID login support
  • Apache Shindig powered, Google compatible, per-user Dashboard and browser based editor support for developing gadgets for hosted mashups (http://wso2.org/library/3813).


Together with the features that were already there;
  • Hosting of mashup services written using JavaScript with E4X XML extension.
  • Simple file based deployment model.
  • Java Script annotations to configure the deployed services
  • Auto generation of meta data and runtime resources for the deployed mashups
  • JavaScript stubs that simplify client access to the mashup service
  • TryIt functionality to invoke the mashup service through a web browser
  • WSDL 1.1/WSDL 2.0/XSD documents to describe the mashup service
  • API documentation
  • Ability to bundle a custom user interface for the mashups
  • Many useful Javascript Host objects that can be used when writing mashups
  1. WSRequest: invoke Web services from mashup services
  2. File: File storage/manipulation functionality
  3. System: Set of system specific utility functions
  4. Session: Ability to share objects across different service invocations
  5. Scraper: Extract data from HTML pages and present in XML format
  6. APPClient: Atom Publishing Protocol client to retrieve/publish Atom
  7. Feed: A generic set of host objects to transparently read and create Atom and RSS feeds.
  8. Request: Ability get information regarding a request received
  9. IM: Ability to send out instant messages from mashups.
  10. Email:Ability to send out emails from mashups.
  • Support for recurring and longer-running tasks
  • Support for service life cycles.
  • Ability to secure hosted mashups using a set of commonly used security scenarios.
  • Management console to easily manage the mashups
  • Simple sharing of deployed mashups with other WSO2 Mashup Servers
  • Mashup sharing community portal (http://mooshup.com) to share and host your mashups
The complete release note details out more. I am sure everybody will enjoy mashing up their web based information more with this latest revision of WSO2 Mashup Server !!!


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