Yeah, its been quite sometime since we did a major release of the UltraESB! Although the last GA release was extremely stable and widely used, we've made significant improvements for the long awaited 2.0.0 release.
Since the beginning, we have been privileged to work closely with some of the best architects actually using our software in production. The suggestions and improvements proposed by them helped us implement key features that set the UltraESB apart. These were real requirements that meant a lot for large scale production deployments running 24 x 7 x 365 with zero downtime. For the 2.0.0 release, we've implemented many features that have been similarly inspired by the requirements of a top Fortune #10 company. These include a built-in metrics management and alerting functionality, and a programmatic instance management capability - coupled with annotation driven extensibility, especially for custom message interception at various stages.
Ruwan has already blogged about some of the metrics graphs generated by the UConsole in the 2.0.0 release, and you could find more documentation at http://docs.adroitlogic.org The 2.0.0 release also migrates to Apache HttpComponents/Core 4.2.4 and Spring framework / Spring security 3.1.1 and introduces a concept of a 'Deployment Unit' that can be deployed/updated or removed at runtime. Deployment units now has the ability to re-load dependency JAR files into the runtime as well, and support atomic updates as before, which allows all changes to be deployed into ESB nodes servicing client requests - without causing inconsistencies.
The Mediation API has also been cleaned up and streamlined with the introduction of 'Support Interfaces'. While being backwards compatible, the changes will help users utilize the UltraESB mediation API more easily.
Check out the full news release here, and refer to the documentation to get started!
Since the beginning, we have been privileged to work closely with some of the best architects actually using our software in production. The suggestions and improvements proposed by them helped us implement key features that set the UltraESB apart. These were real requirements that meant a lot for large scale production deployments running 24 x 7 x 365 with zero downtime. For the 2.0.0 release, we've implemented many features that have been similarly inspired by the requirements of a top Fortune #10 company. These include a built-in metrics management and alerting functionality, and a programmatic instance management capability - coupled with annotation driven extensibility, especially for custom message interception at various stages.
Ruwan has already blogged about some of the metrics graphs generated by the UConsole in the 2.0.0 release, and you could find more documentation at http://docs.adroitlogic.org The 2.0.0 release also migrates to Apache HttpComponents/Core 4.2.4 and Spring framework / Spring security 3.1.1 and introduces a concept of a 'Deployment Unit' that can be deployed/updated or removed at runtime. Deployment units now has the ability to re-load dependency JAR files into the runtime as well, and support atomic updates as before, which allows all changes to be deployed into ESB nodes servicing client requests - without causing inconsistencies.
The Mediation API has also been cleaned up and streamlined with the introduction of 'Support Interfaces'. While being backwards compatible, the changes will help users utilize the UltraESB mediation API more easily.
Check out the full news release here, and refer to the documentation to get started!
