WS-Security

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

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

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 !!!