What's New in GlassFish ESB 2.1

GlassFish ESB includes the following new features and components in version 2.1:

• Support for GlassFish clustering in all components

• Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) Service Engine – Enables complex event processing (CEP) and event stream processing (ESP) using the Continuous Query Language (CQL).

• Scheduler Binding Component – Provides scheduling capabilities for initiating JBI services and allows you to schedule triggers to launch other JBI components.

• New Systems Support:

  • NetBeans IDE 6.5

  • GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1

  • OpenSolaris 2008.11

  • Red Hat Linux AS 5 (32 and 64 bit)

  • IBM AIX 5L 5.3 (OS: 64 bit; JVM: 32 bit) (runtime support only)

  • MySQL 5.1 Community Server (for specific components only)

• BPEL Service Engine

  • Support for validate activities.

  • The ability to add JavaScript code to a business process as an activity.

• File Binding Component

  • Support for UTF-16 characterset encoding.

  • Configurable options for on-demand reads that allow you remove a file resource once it has been read.

  • The ability to specify polling file names using Java regular expression-based file name patterns. This is supported through a new file:message attribute name fileNameIsRegex. Note that regex is not supported for output files.

  • The ability to specify a directory location for lock files rather than the location being relative to the fileDirectory property. This is supported through a new file:address attribute named persistenceBaseLoc.

• FTP Binding Component

  • The ability to specify a directory location for lock files using a new ftp:address attribute named baseLocation.

• HTTP Binding Component

  • Support for OpenSSO Web Services Security (WSS) Agent, which allows the HTTP BC to communicate with OpenSSO Enterprise 8 on a remote or local machine.

• LDAP Binding Component

  • Support for connection pooling.

• JMS Binding Component

  • Support for using multiple queues with WebSphere Message Queue.

GlassFish ESB Components

GlassFish ESB includes the components listed below.

• Service Engines

  • BPEL

  • Data Mashup

  • IEP

  • Java EE

  • XSLT

• Binding Components:

  • Database

  • File

  • FTP

  • HTTP

  • JMS (includes JMSJCA)

  • LDAP

  • Scheduler

• Editors and Project Types:

  • CASA Editor

  • WSDL Editor

  • Composite Application