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The PEtALS 1.1 M1 includes :

Platform

• Components lifecycles are managed in independent
  threads.

Component Common

• The componentcommon library is now packaged as a
  component development kit. It offers an abstract
  binding component framework with an integrated
  serviceunit management.
• PEtALS components start to be refactored with
  this CDK.

Binding Components

• The SOAP BC is now based on Axis2 1.1
• Due to WSDL incompatibility theSOAP BC
  implemented with XLinker is no more supported.

The PEtALS 1.0 final version is available.

Petals is an open source ESB that fully implements
the Java Business Integration specification (JSR
208). It is completely distributed, and each Petals’
node self-configures at start-up to join the global
Petals network without any configuration.

Petals provides a set of JBI components that enables
Enterprise Business Integration solutions. Petals
offers basic monitoring tools to supervise the whole
servers network. Extra-tools are provided to help
you to develop your own JBI components according to
the JBI specification.

Please read the documentation on the Petals web site
to learn more about Petals, ESB and JBI principles.
A demonstrator is also available to show how Petals
helps you to integrate your existing applications.

You can download the binary and source distribution
at http://petals.objectweb.org in the ‘download’
section.

Enjoy!

The Petals team is pleased to announce the release
of Petals 1.0 M4

You can download the binary and source distribution
at http://petals.objectweb.org in the download
section.

New features:

Platform

• Multiple Petals containers can be launched and
  work together in a distributed way.

Binding Components

• A SOAP-BC with X Linker
• A JMS-BC
• A XSLT-SE

Tools

Maven plugin for xlinker :

• Java2WSDL
• Java2WSAR
• Wsdl2Java

Demonstrators

The Mortgage demonstrator has been added.

Documentation

• New web site.
• Documentation of all the new components, tools
  and demonstrators has been added.
• Documentation updated to fit with Petals
  improvements.

Coming soon

The Petals 1.0 final version will be available on
september.

Non blocking bug

• auto installation :

  In some cases, during the auto installation of
  components (by copying a component’s archive
  into install directory), the ‘forceDelete() :
  Unable to delete xxx …’ message can appear.
  This message does not block the installation of
  the component.

Known Bugs

• JNDI distributed directory bug :

  Only containers started on the same computer can
  work together. When two containers with the same
  configuration are started on different
  container, they configure themself in the right
  way but during the installation of component,
  the JNDI directory is not updated in the other
  containers. Restrictions

• Attachments :

  Attachments are not supported in this version.
  Due to this restriction, the FileTransfert
  BindingComponent does not work.

• Message content :

  The content of NormalizedMessage is a Source
  type. Only StreamSource are managed in this
  version.

The Petals team is pleased to announce the release
of Petals 1.0 M3

You can download the binary and source distribution,
and the article, at http://petals.objectweb.org

New features :

Platform

• Management of synchronous send, and a better
  management of MessageExchange lifecycle
• Ant tasks
• Recover capability, allowing to stop-restart
  Petals and keep all components or
  service-assemblies states
• Simpliest http-jmx management for JBI, with a
  special ‘PetalsView’ tab in the http-jmx console

Binding Components

• A SOAP-BC with Axis
• An SMTP-BC
• A FileTransfert-BC

(plus an early version of a Celtix-BC)

Tools

As a first tool, a simple webapp is available, to
perfom install/start and shutdown/uninstall process.

Documentation

More documentation about the architecture is also
available on the wiki.

Project infrastructure

Petals project now uses Maven2. Tests and code
coverage have been intensively added.

Coming soon

The major feature of the next milestone will be the
distributed environment support of Petals.

The Petals team announces the release of Petals 1.0
M2

This milestone implements 100% of the JBI APIs and
provides :

• Component Framework implementation
• Installation Service for JBI components
  installation
• Deployment Service for component artefacts
  deployment
• Life Cycle Management
• Normalized Message Router

Architecture has been refactored to be based on the
ObjectWeb component model Fractal :

• JMX administration based on Fractal JMX and MX4J
• Logging based on Monolog integration via a
  Fractal mixin

It includes several examples and a Getting started
guide is available on the project’s wiki.

This version provides a standalone JBI container.
Stay tuned for the next milestones which will
provide the distribution and cluster features.

You can download the binary and source distribution
at http://petals.objectweb.org