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The OW2 open source software community announces Best Project Awards 2012

2012-12-07T03:52:00.000-08:00

Shelbie, EasyBeans, ProActive, CLIF, Fractal et Bonita Open Solution win OW2 Best Project Awards

Paris, 7 december 2012 — OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software, announces the winners of the OW2 Best Project Awards 2012. Organized for the first time this year, the OW2 Best Project Awards recognize OW2 projects for their outstanding contribution in four categories: innovation, community development, market performance and the Technology Council Special Prize.

The winners of the first ever OW2 Best Project Awards are:

• Innovation Award: Shelbie (award presented to Peergreen Co-Founder and Software Architect Guillaume Sauthier). OW2 Shelbie provides both an advanced programming model for building commands on top of Apache Felix Gogo and Apache Felix iPOJO and also a JLine based frontend. Shelbie innovates by allowing on-the-fly installation of commands at run-time, thereby enhancing the already modular and dynamlic OSGi platform.

• Community Award: EasyBeans (award presented to Peergreen Co-Founder and Software Architect Guillaume Sauthier). EasyBeans is an open source implementation by OW2 of the EJB3 container specification. It is embedded in the Java EE 5 certified OW2 JOnAS application server. This award recognizes outstanding representation of the OW2 spirit which consists in protecting, sharing and re-using the community code.

• Market Award: Bonita Open Solution (award presented to BonitaSoft Marketing Director Jeremy Lipp). Bonita Open Solution is an intuitive and powerful solution to build process based applications at optimum cost. BonitaSoft was recognized for the clarity of its strategy and the excellence of its execution which translated into the outstanding growth of its installed base of professional customers;

• Technology Council Special Prize: ProActive-CLIF-Fractal integration (award presented to ActiveEon CEO Denis Caromel and Bruno Dillenseger, Engineer at Orange). The technology Council wanted to recognize the examplarity of the community and standardisation efforts deployed for the successful integration of these three projects.

“We are extremely proud of our Best Project Awards 2012 winners,” says OW2 CEO Cedric Thomas “Their achievements reflect the growing momentum of the OW2 open source software community,” he adds. The OW2 Best Project Awards afford OW2 members, project leaders and their teams great recognition within the community as well as many opportunities in terms of visibility. The award ceremony took place at OW2con'12, the annual conference of the OW2 community, on 28 November, at Orange Labs' Innovation Garden, in Paris Issy-les-Moulineaux. All projects were invited to compete for one of the four awards: Innovation Award, Community Award, Market Award and
Technology Council Special Prize. The winners were selected by a jury of project leaders from the technology Council and members of the OW2 Management Office.

About OW2
OW2 is an independent industry community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware and generic applications) and to fostering a vibrant community and business ecosystem. The OW2 Consortium hosts some one hundred technology projects, including ASM, Bonita, eXo Platorm, JOnAS, JORAM, Orbeon Forms, Orchestra, Petals ESB, Spagic, SpagoBI and XWiki.

Visit www.ow2.org

Gatein Cookbook is Out

2012-11-26T04:28:00.003-08:00

The GateIn Cookbook is out! As an invited reviewer, I reviewed this book as Java EE Expert. Buy the book from http://tinyurl.com/cybxl88

The goal of the book is to show GateIn as an open source website framework piece by piece. Starting with simple recipes, you will see each step analyzed with code examples and images, before progressing to more advanced recipes.

This GateIn Cookbook will help you with a quick approach to building portals.

Siwpas is now OW2 Consortium Project

2012-10-03T00:44:00.002-07:00

We are very proud that our Java web application server Siwpas, Simple Web Profile Application Server has been accepted as an incubator project in OW2 Consortium. Now, we are more powerful to implement simple but powerful professional open source Java EE Web Profile application server.

What is Siwpas?

Siwpas (pronounced as Simple Web Profile Application Server) is a lightweight Java™ application server platform for developing enterprise quality Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) web applications. Siwpas integrates The Apache Software Foundation Java EE 6 related projects for providing a Java EE Web Profile compatible runtime platform. Siwpas also adds extra enterprise features, such as "WebSocket Protocol Support", "Clustering of CDI and EJB beans", "Siwpas Eclipse Plugin", "Tomcat JAAS Security Modules" etc.

What is OW2?

OW2 is an independent, global, open-source software community. The mission of OW2 is to a) promote the development of open-source middleware, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and b) foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem. OW2 developments follow a flexible, component-based approach. These components range from specific software frameworks, protocols and applications through to integrated, service-oriented platforms for enterprise computing. OW2 consortium is an independent non-profit organization open to companies, public organizations, academia and individuals. OW2 is an open organization.

More Information:

OW2 Consortium : http://ow2.org
About OW2 : http://www.ow2.org/view/About/OW2_Consortium

Siwpas Application Server : http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr
Siwpas OW2 Page : http://www.ow2.org/view/ActivitiesDashboard/Siwpas

Professional Open Source Support

2012-08-23T05:13:00.002-07:00

Would you like to get first hand professional open source support for the following Apache Software Foundation projects?

Apache OpenWebBeans (I am founder of this project)
Apache OpenEJB
Apache Tomcat
Apache TomEE
Apache ActiveMQ,
Apache Axis-2,

What We Offer to Our Customers

Products Updates : When a new version of the product is launched, we immediately deliver updates to our customers. It may also contains hot-fixes according to the subscription level.
Security Patches : Providing critical security patches.
Technical Support : Providing technical support according to the subscription level.
Custom Developments/Extra Features: Providing/Developing custom features for products that customer wants.
Development Support: Providing consultancy on Java EE project development.

Please contact with me to get more information about support and for any open source products that are not listed above.

WebSocket in Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8

2012-03-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

Hi

After a long work by the Apache Tomcat Team, WebSocket has been implemented in Tomcat 7 codebase. It will be included in Tomcat 7.0.27 onward. Good job guys!

Happy websockets!

OpenWebBeans Professional Support

2012-02-12T14:41:00.000-08:00

As you have already know that I am a founder and lead of the Apache OpenWebBeans project. My team at MechSoft has been given Professional Support Services and Training for the OpenWebBeans project. Professional support services includes

Bug fix immediately
Application Server Support for OpenWebBeans
Training on OpenWebBeans and CDI
Phone and mail support

To get more information about our open source project support, see our Open Source Support page

RFC 6455 : WebSocket Protocol

2012-02-01T08:37:00.000-08:00

Hi,

A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. The WebSocket Protocol enables two-way communication between a client running untrusted code in a controlled environment to a remote host that has opted-in to communications from that code.

READ Specification: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455.txt

SIWPAS Supports WebSocket Protocol

Currently Siwpas 2.0.0 supports websocket-version 7 (Supported in Firefox 7). Latest firefox (Firefox 10) supports websocket-version 8. Siwpas 3.0.0 will support the latest version of the specification . If you wish to use Version 8 with Siwpas 2.0.0, please drop us an email (sales@siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr) to get an updated version.

Download Siwpas Trial : http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr

Enjoy!

Using Apache MyFaces CODI with Siwpas 2.0.0

2012-01-31T02:11:00.000-08:00

Hello folks,

It has been a long time to write something in my blog because of very busy business. In this blog post, I would like to share how one can use Apache MyFaces CODI with Siwpas, Simple Web Profile Application Server.

*NOTE : To start your CODI applications in Siwpas, do not put "beans.xml" file into the "WEB-INF/classes/" folder if beans.xml is already exist in "WEB-INF/" folder.

Requirements

Download Siwpas 2.0.0 trial from http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr (In Siwpas 3.0.0, we will remove license constraints to start Siwpas!)
Checkout CODI JSF 2.0 sample from CODI SVN

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/extensions/cdi/trunk/examples/ codi-examples
cd \codi-examples\jsf-examples\hello_myfaces-codi_jsf20\src\main\resources\META-INF
Remove beans.xml file. (For Siwpas, this file is unnecessary because beans.xml is already exist in WEB-INF/ folder of the web application. Otherwise, CODI is not deployed correctly!)
Run the following command to create WAR archive

mvn clean install -Denvironment=jee6

Now, you have a WAR archive in "\codi-examples\jsf-examples\hello_myfaces-codi_jsf20\target" folder with name "hello-myfaces-codi-jsf20-example-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.war"
Rename "hello-myfaces-codi-jsf20-example-1.0.4-SNAPSHOT.war" to "hello-codi.war"

Deploy "hello-codi.war" to Siwpas

Put "hello-codi.war" into the Siwpas "webapps" folder.

Start Siwpas and Open Application

Go to Siwpas bin folder

cd /bin folder of the Siwpas

Start Siwpas

siwpas.bat run

Open Browser Page

http://localhost:8080/hello-codi

Links

Siwpas : http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr
CODI : http://myfaces.apache.org/extensions/cdi/index.html

Enjoy!

Using Siwpas WebSocket Protocol Connector With Firefox 6

2011-08-29T03:00:00.000-07:00

Firefox 6 has launched with websocket protocol support that is enabled in Firefox default configuration. Currently Firefox 6 supports draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07. (Check what is new in Firefox6).

In Firefox 6, JavaScript WebSocket object is renamed to MozWebSocket because they want to emphasize that current implementation is still based on draft version of the specification.

Using Siwpas with Firefox 6

Now, you can implement a websocket based HTML5 applications easily. Siwpas, starting from the version 2.0.0, supports websocket protocol that is based on draft-7. Siwpas websocket connector isimplemented via NIO.

Example WebSocket Application

Actually, you can read my previous blog post about how to install and use simple web socket application in Siwpas. Instead of downloading Firefox Aurora 5 to test websocket application , now you can download Firefox 6 from here.

Installation NOTE: As I said above, WebSocket object is renamed to MozWebSocket in Firefox 6. You can download mozilla based sample application from here, Mozilla Based Sample Application

Enjoy WebSocket!

Siwpas Web Socket Protocol Sample

2011-07-31T03:19:00.000-07:00

Hello,

This post shows how to configure and use Siwpas Web Socket Protocol using a sample web socket web application.

Requirements:

Siwpas 2.0.0, can be downloaded from http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr/. To use the Siwpas, you also have to get a trial license from Get Siwpas Trial License
Firefox Aurora from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/ that supports web socket protocol latest version.
Web socket sample application can be downloaded from here. This sample web application provides two applications:

Basic Echo Server to echo your input
Basic Chat Server. This chat server client code is written via getting code from HTML5 Labs Chat Demo

Installation:

Unzip the Siwpas into your system (C:\Siwpas-2.0.0). We call it SIWPAS_HOME
Enable Web Socket Connector

Open "SIWPAS_HOME/server.xml"
Uncomment the Web Socket Connector

Put trial license file "siwpas.license" into the SIWPAS_HOME/licenses folder
Put sample web application archive"siwpas-websocket-sample.war" into the "SIWPAS_HOME/webapps" folder
Go into "SIWPAS_HOME/bin" and start the Siwpas

/bin/siwpas.bat run

Open Applications:

Echo Application : http://localhost:8080/siwpas-websocket-sample/simple.html
Chat Application : http://localhost:8080/siwpas-websocket-sample/chat.html

Open several instances of Firefox or even install several Siwpas instances into the other machines in your domain, and enjoy the chat application.

!As you will see, Web Socket Chat Application is very fast (instantly see the messages that you write)!

Web Socket Documentation

You can read more about Siwpas Web Socket Protocol Support from Siwpas documentation.

Online administration guide, Read Online Admin Guide
Download PDF from Documentation Page

More Information

Visit http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr

Enjoy!

MechSoft™ Announces the Release of Siwpas™ 2.0.0 with Web Socket Protocol Support

2011-07-29T06:38:00.000-07:00

Lightweight Application Server Platform for Java™ EE Web Application Deployments

Ankara, Turkey, July 29, 2011 - MechSoft™ Mechanical and Software Solutions today announced the release of Siwpas™ 2.0.0, lightweight Java based application server platform. Siwpas (pronounced as Simple Web Profile Application Server) is a fast and lightweight Java application server platform for running web applications that are implemented using the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Web Profile Technologies. Siwpas is powered by “The Apache Software Foundation™” Java EE 6 related projects for satisfying the Java EE Web Profile required components.

Siwpas 2.0.0, Web Socket Support
Starting from version 2.0.0, Siwpas supports Web Socket Protocol. Supported protocol version is “draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-07”.

Siwpas 2.0.0, CDI and EJB Clustering Support
Starting from version 2.0.0, Siwpas supports the clustering of Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) Managed Beans and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).

Siwpas 2.0.0, Cool Administration Console
It is easy to manage the Siwpas via Java Server Faces based administration console. Easily view and manage the internals of the Siwpas.

Why Siwpas?

Lightweight: Siwpas is specifically implemented for running web profile based web applications. It does not contain unnecessary technology complexity. Siwpas is light and will always be light.

Fast: Siwpas is started in seconds in a commonly used production servers. Siwpas also relieves developers from long testing cycles while developing their next enterprise web applications.

Easy to Use: If you know the Apache Tomcat, you know the Siwpas. Deploying and running web applications is the same as Tomcat , but you get web profile technologies that are not contained in the Apache Tomcat.

7x24 Support: Siwpas Enterprise Edition is supported by MechSoft according to the different subscription levels.

No Upfront License Cost: Customers do not have to pay upfront license costs for running Siwpas. Only support subscriptions are needed to use Siwpas Enterprise Edition.

Competitive Pricing: Siwpas Enterprise Edition subscription price is very competitive when it is compared with the other server alternatives.

Siwpas Enterprise Edition has undergone complex QA testing, contains cool administration console, and the most importantly, is supported professionally by MechSoft Team according to the subscription levels.

Siwpas Enterprise Edition is priced based on an annual subscription per CPU. Prospects can request a trial copy at http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr/downloads. Propsects can also buy Siwpas EE subscriptions from http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr/sales.

Siwpas aim is to create most lightweight Java server platform for running next generation Java enterprise web applications. Siwpas will be a perfect application server for our customers by greatly lowering TCO and improving application development, deployment and runtime management times.

For more detailed information about Siwpas, visit http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr.

About MechSoft Mechanical and Software Solutions

MechSoft Mechanical and Software Solutions (http://www.mechsoft.com.tr) is located in Ankara, capital of Turkey. It has two different branches, Mechanical Solutions Group and Software Solutions Group.

Mechanical Solutions Group is the main distributor of well-known CAD/CAM products in Turkey and also develops mechanical engineering projects. Software Solutions Group mission is to provide an open source, high quality software products that are backed by his technical experts and authorized partners. He is mainly specialized on Java Enterprise Edition and middleware technologies. Siwpas is one of the open source flagship product of Software Solutions Group. Software Group provides comprehensive services including Professional Support, Training, and Consulting around Siwpas Enterprise Edition.

Interview with Infoq About Siwpas

2011-05-25T00:11:00.000-07:00

Infoq has published an interview with me about Siwpas. Read an interview from Siwpas 1.0 - a Tomcat Based Server for EE6 Web Profile

Enjoy!

Siwpas Sample Screencasts on YoutTube

2011-05-10T00:03:00.000-07:00

Siwpas Screencasts that shows how to implement Java EE Web Profile applications using CDI, EJB, JPA,JSF etc. has started on YouTube Channel!

Checkout first sample : Siwpas Samples - CDI Sample

Enjoy!

Siwpas Eclipse Plugin

2011-05-04T09:29:00.001-07:00

What is Siwpas Eclipse Plugin?

Siwpas Eclipse Plugin is used for developing Java EE Web based applications in Eclipse Environment. You can easily define Siwpas Server Runtime in Eclipse and deploy your web applications without leaving from the Eclipse development environment.

How to Install Siwpas Eclipse Plugin?

ScreenCast of Installation :
To watch the screencast about installation process, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WiqBZ1_7Y8

You can easily install Siwpas Eclipse Plugin Via Siwpas Update Site. Follow the belowing steps to install Siwpas Eclipse Plugin

Download Eclipse Helios from Eclipse Side, http://eclipse.org
- Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
Open Eclipse
Open "Help/Install New Software"
Add new update side with the following information,
- Name : Any name you want to give
- Location : http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr/update
Follow the directions

Example Screenshot with Adding Siwpas Update Site:

After you have successfully installed Siwpas Eclipse Plugin, you can easily add MechSoft Siwpas Server runtime from menu "Open Window/Preferences" and select "Server/Runtime Environments".

After you have configured Server Runtime, you can easily add new server via Servers perspective.

Open Servers Perspecive via "Windows/Show View/Other" and select "Server/Servers"
Right clicks on Servers View and follow the instructions. (Select Siwpas Runtime)

After configuring the Siwpas Server, you will have a Servers view like below,

Now you can develop your next Java EE Web applications via Siwpas. Enjoy!

If you have any questions, use our forum, http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr/forum

Siwpas Clustering

2011-05-02T08:18:00.000-07:00

Hello,

Siwpas 1.1.0 will be released in next month with more clustering features. Currently, Siwpas supports the Tomcat native clustering for replicating the HTTP Sessions. With Siwpas 1.1.0, following features will be supported

Stateful and Singleton EJB Bean Clustering(Replication and Failover)
Siwpas CDI Beans Clustering (Replication and Failover)

Moreover, Siwpas Enterprise Edition Console application will be featured by Clustered View and Deployment operations. You can try Siwpas EE from Downloads Section .

If you want to see more features in Siwpas, time to speak up! You can comment via our community forum from Siwpas Forum.

Stay Tune,

Siwpas, More than Apache Tomcat

2011-04-22T00:07:00.000-07:00

Introduction

Java™ EE 6 Web Profile specification defines the Java™ EE Web Profile (“Web Profile”), a profile of the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition specifically targeted at web applications. Siwpas™, (Simple Web Profile Application Server) is an application server aimed for implementing the Java™ EE Web Profile specification. In this article, the components of Siwpas, its current state and the level of compatibility regarding to the Web Profile Specification will be discussed.

Java EE 6 WEB PROFILE

Java™ EE Platform Specification consists of huge number of specifications (APIs). For platform provider companies, it is not easy to developfully compliant Java™ EE Platform that implements all of the required components of the Java™ EE Platform Specification. For application developers, it is not necessary to use all of the Java™ EE APIs for developing enterprise applications. Because of these observations, Java™ EE Expert Group (EG) has defined Profiles in Java™ EE v6 and first standard profile has been defined, “Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Web Profile Specification”.

The Web Profile is aimed for developers of modern web applications. Aiming “modern” web applications then implies offering a reasonably complete stack, composed of standard APIs, and capable out-of-the-box of addressing the needs of a large class of web applications. Furthermore, this stack should be easy to grow, so as to address any remaining developer needs5. Web Profile stack has consisted of the following technologies;

Servlet 3.0
Java Server Pages 2.2
Expression Language 2.2
Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0
Standard Tag Library for JSP 1.2
Java Server Faces 2.0
Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.0
Enterprise Java Beans Lite 3.1
Java Transaction API 1.1
Java Persistence API 2.0
Bean Validation 1.0
Managed Beans 1.0
Interceptors 1.1
Context and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.0
Dependency Injection for Java 1.0

As known, the Java™ EE Web Profile is a subset of the Java™ EE Platform specification. Lots of Java™ EE Platform specification required components are not contained in the Java™ EE Web Profile. For exampe, below components are not defined for Java™ EE Web Profile specification, JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-R, SAAJ, JAX-RS, JAX-B, JMS, JAAS, JASPIC, JACC, JCA, JavaMail, JSR77, JSR88.

APACHE EE PROJECTS

The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.
In Siwpas, we use ASF Java™ EE projects for satisfying Java™ EE Web Profile required components. These projects and their correspondence to Web Profile components are shown below.

Apache Tomcat 7™ Servlet, JSP,EL and related components
Apache MyFaces 2™ Java Server Faces component
Apache OpenEJB™ EJB 3.1 Lite and related components : Siwpas EJB Lite container is powered by the OpenEJB.
Apache OpenWebBeans™ Dependency Injection components: Siwpas CDI container is powered by the OpenWebBeans.
Apache Bean Validation™ Validation component
Apache OpenJPA™ Persistence API component

MECHSOFT Siwpas Application Server

What is Siwpas

Siwpas (pronounced as Simple Web Profile Application Server) is a lightweight Java™ application server platform for developing enterprise quality Java EE web applications. Siwpas integrates above ASF Java™ EE based projects for providing Java™ EE Web Profile compatible runtime platform.

Integrating different set of projects on the same runtime is not an easy task . MechSoft has been writing integration layer component to integrate Apache Tomcat 7 runtime with Siwpas EJB 3.1 Lite container runtime. Moreover, cool web based management console to manage all aspects of the Siwpas has been written.

Siwpas management console provides the following management operations.

Overall realtime view of the current running system
CPU, Memory, OS, JVM Heap size
Server configuration
Applications view and deployment operations
JMX, JNDI and ClassLoader views
Dashboards
Web and EJB Container runtime status
And more...

Here is the login screen of the Siwpas Console

Why another server?

Nowadays, huge number of application developers and enterprise companies want to use lightweight application servers for deploying and running their web applications. They do not want to use heavyweight Java™ EE Servers that are fully compliant with Java™ EE Specifications. They do want to manage lightweight, cloud environment friendly servers. Nonetheless, they also need more techonlogy stack for implementing their web based applications, such as using “JPA, JSF, JTA , EJB etc.” Moreover, most of them deploy their critical enterprise web applications into the Apache Tomcat in their production systems.

Siwpas is aimed to provide lightweight application server runtime based on Apache Tomcat 7 . It also fills web applications technology requirements via ASF Java EE projects. In summary, Siwpas translates the Apache Tomcat 7 into more powerful enterprise web server.

The benefits of using Siwpas can be listed as follows;

It has lightweight but powerful runtime environment,
It is based on very-well known JSP & Servlet Container, Apache Tomcat 7,
It consists of Web Profile Specification technology stack,
It consists of powerful, commerical quality ASF Java EE Projects,
It is an open source project,
It is supported by MechSoft (7x24 enterprise support),
It is light and will be always light,
It has very cool JSF based administration console.

Web Profile Compliance

Currently Siwpas is not claimed to be compatible (compliance) with Java™ EE Web Profile Specification becauase it has not been tested with Java™ EE Web Profile TCK. This does not mean that Siwpas will never be certified as a Web Profile Compliance application server. In order to test Siwpas with Java™ EE Web Profile TCK, MechSoft has to be licensee of Oracle and the issue is being discussed with Oracle to find a reasanable way to obtain TCK. As mentioned on the above paragraphs, except Apache OpenEJB, ASF Java™ EE projects are TCK compliant with their respective specificiations on themselves.

About JSR-299 and JSR-303 TCKs

Siwpas has passed "JSR-299 Web Profile TCK" and "JSR-303 TCK" succesfully. Therefore Siwpas provides JSR-299 and JSR-303 compatible CDI and Bean Validation runtime environment.
JSR-299 and JSR-303 TCKs are licensed by the Redhat as ASL v2. To get more information, visit

JSR-303 TCK Home : http://community.jboss.org/wiki/BeanValidationTCK
JSR-299 TCK Home : http://seamframework.org/Weld/CDITCKReleases

Siwpas Editions
There are two different editions of Siwpas

Community Edition
Enterprise Edition

Check Compare Editions page to get more details.

Summary

The Java™ EE Web Profile Specification is the first standard profile specification in the Java™ EE Profiles that is explained in the Java™ EE Platform Specification. Instead of using a full profile compatible Java™ EE servers, now developers are able to use more lightweight server runtimes for developing their Java™ based web applications. This does not mean that full profile application servers such as Apache Geronimo will be useless. Some enterprise applications still need to use other cool features of Java™ EE full profile, such as Remote EJB Invocation, Asynchronous Message Processing via JMS, CORBA Integration etc. In an incoming version of the Java™ EE platform, a more number of specific profiles can be seen.

Siwpas is a lightweight web application server based on the ASF Java EE projects. It provides Java™ EE Web Profile components with a powerful web based administration console. It is one of the lightweight application servers to implement Java™ EE Web Profile Specification.

Siwpas Home Page

To get more information about Siwpas, visit http://siwpas.mechsoft.com.tr

MechSoft™ Mechanical and Software Solutions Announces the General Availability of Siwpas™, Simple Web Profile Application Server

2011-04-22T00:01:00.000-07:00

MechSoft™ Mechanical and Software Solutions today announced the general availability of Siwpas™, lightweight Java based application server platform. Siwpas(pronounced as Simple Web Profile Application Server) is a fast and lightweight Java application server platform for running web applications that are implemented using the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Web Profile Technologies. Siwpas is powered by “The Apache Software Foundation™” Java EE 6 related projects for satisfying the Java EE Web Profile required components.
Why Siwpas?

Lightweight: Siwpas is specifically implemented for running web profile based web applications. It does not contain unnecessary technology complexity. Siwpas is light and will always be light.

Fast: Siwpas is started in seconds in a commonly used production servers. Siwpas also relieves developers from long testing cycles while developing their next enterprise web applications.

Easy to Use: If you know the Tomcat, you know the Siwpas. Deploying and running web applications is the same as Tomcat , but you get web profile technologies that are not contained in the Apache Tomcat.

Open Source: Siwpas Community Edition is available under a friendly open source license.
Siwpas is powered by “The Apache Software Foundation’s” Java EE projects.

Cool Administration Console: It is easy to manage the Siwpas via Java Server Faces based administration console. Easily view and manage the internals of the Siwpas.
7×24 Support: Siwpas Enterprise Edition is supported by MechSoft according to the different subscription levels.

No Upfront License Cost: Customers do not have to pay upfront license costs for running Siwpas. Only support subscriptions are needed to use Siwpas Enterprise Edition. Siwpas Community Edition is free of charge but it is not professionally supported by MechSoft Team.
Competitive Pricing: Siwpas Enterprise Edition subscription price is very competitive when it is compared with the other server alternatives.

Gurkan Erdogdu, Chief Technology Officer of Mechsoft said that “Nowadays, a huge number of application developers and enterprise grade companies would like to use lightweight application servers for deploying and running their web applications. They do not want to use heavy Java EE Servers that are hard to use and manage. They would like to use lightweight, cloud environment friendly application servers. Nonetheless, they also need more technology stack for implementing their web based applications, such as “Java Persistence, Java Server Faces, Java Transactions, Enterprise Java Beans and etc. Siwpas Enterprise Edition is the perfect fit for providing such a lightweight application server platform with all the features needed.”

Siwpas is now generally available. There are two editions of Siwpas, Siwpas Community Edition (CE) and Siwpas Enterprise Edition (EE). Siwpas CE is free of charge but it is not supported professionally by MechSoft Team. On the other hand, Siwpas EE has undergone complex QA testing, contains cool administration console, and the most importantly, is supported professionally by MechSoft Team according to the subscription levels.

About MechSoft Mechanical and Software Solutions

MechSoft Mechanical and Software Solutions is located in Ankara, capital of Turkey. It has two different branches, Mechanical Solutions Group and Software Solutions Group.

Mechanical Solutions Group is the main distributor of well-known CAD/CAM products in Turkey and also develops mechanical engineering projects. Software Solutions Group mission is to provide an open source, high quality software products that are backed by his technical experts and authorized partners. He is mainly specialized on Java Enterprise Edition and middleware technologies. Siwpas is one of the open source flagship product of Software Solutions Group. Software Group provides comprehensive services including Professional Support, Training, and Consulting around Siwpas Enterprise Edition.

More on SIwpas Console...

2010-12-22T12:25:00.000-08:00

Hello,

We are actively developing SIwpas console. It provides cool features, for example "OpenEJB" pool statistics and application operations are two of them.

Below are the screenshots from SIwpas console,

EJB Pools,

Applications controls

The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

2010-12-09T22:47:00.000-08:00

Hi folks,

Apache Software Foundation has resigned from Java Commnunity Process (JCP) Executive Committee.

You can get further information from http://s.apache.org/P12

Have a nice day!

SIwpas Cool Console is Coming....

2010-12-08T09:55:00.000-08:00

Hey folks,

We have been developing very cool SIwpas Administration Console. It will be available on 1.0.0 release at the end of December.

Below are 2 screenshots;

LOGIN PAGE

MAIN PAGE

Cool ha,

Building SIwpas

2010-12-02T09:14:00.000-08:00

We have committed BUILD document into the trunk. It expains how to build usabe SIwpas distribution using current release of Tomcat.

Checkout http://siwpas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Also, we have checked in all source code of SIwpas including EJB lite version. If you wish to help us on any issues/features, you are more than welcome! You may be the next committer of SIwpas, next generation lightweight web server

Enjoy!

SIwpas Getting Closer to 1.0.0 GA

2010-12-01T09:07:00.000-08:00

Hi,

We are getting close to SIwpas 1.0.0 GA release. We have been working very hard to release SIwpas at the end of December.

SIwpas Promise

SIwpas will not be bloated with technologies when it grows and matures. For example, lots of frameworks or servers have been launched as a lightweight but lots of them have swelled because of adding new stack of library with every new release.

SIwpas will be remain as lightweight web server that contains only the following technologies

Servlet and JSP
EJB Lite
CDI

It means that there will be no support for the following technologies

Web Services
Remote EJBs and other heavy level EJB concepts
Java Messaging Service
CORBA
etc...

If you wish to use such technologies, give up SIwpas and use other well known Java EE application servers like Apache Geronimo, JBoss, Jonas etc.

Enjoy!

New Site For SIwpas, Simple Web Profile Application Server

2010-11-07T06:28:00.000-08:00

We have opened new location for SIwpas in our web site.

Important Locations are,

You can download the SIwpas subscription guide from

SIwpas Subscription Guide Document

Enjoy!

MechSoft Launches Apache Enterprise Java EE Projects Support Program

2010-11-05T06:08:00.000-07:00

We have launched the "Apache Enterprise Java EE Projects Support Program".

MechSoft architects have a deep knowledge of ASF Java EE Projects at the source code level. Therefore, we are the most trusted open source technical support company in the world. We offer two differents subscription packages for our customers, “Basic Level Subscription” and “Enterprise Level Subscription”.

What We Offer to Our Customers

Products Update
Security Patches
Technical Support
Custom Developments/Extra Feature Implementation
Development Support

Subscription Types

We have two types of subscription packages,

Basic Subscription, is the perfect fit for the non-mission critical applications.
Enterprise Subscription , is the exact choice for the customers who require 24x7 support for their mission critical applications.

For more information visit the Subscription Guide Page

You can directly download subscription guide document from http://tiny.cc/0xev4

Enjoy!

SIwpas 24x7 Production Support

2010-11-05T00:41:00.000-07:00

Would you like to use simple, powerfull and lightweight SIwpas application server? MechSoft provides all consultancy to migrate your applications to SIwpas.

See http://mechsoft.com.tr/Mechsoft/software/en/acikkaynak/siwpasfiyat.html for our price information. Those prices may more cheaper than lots of SIwpas alternative application servers!

Try SIwpas today! Download it from http://code.google.com/p/siwpas/downloads/list

Mail us to get more detailed information, yg@mechsoft.com.tr