PEtALS ESB

News

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:25:00 GMT

PEtALS as WS Proxy : 160 000 000 messages per day

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 12 Feb 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Look at the scenario description here.

SOAP usecases

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 04 August 2008 12:30:00 GMT

The latest SOAP usecases have just been published on the project forge. More information on the demonstrations page.

PEtALS 2.2

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 21 July 2008 19:30:00 GMT

The PEtALS developers team is pleased to announce the release of PEtALS 2.2 Quickstart and Standalone distributions. It also comes with the PEtALS WebConsole 1.2, a new Component Development Kit (petals-cdk-4.0) and EIP, SOAP, FILETRANSFER, XSLT JBI Components.

PEtALS and JASMINe integration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 04 July 2008 10:30:00 GMT

A Flash demonstration about OW2 PEtALS and OW2 JASMINe integration is available on the demonstration page.

PEtALS Social Networks

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:30:00 GMT

PEtALS is now available on social networks. More information in the community page.

PEtALS and SCA presentation

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:30:00 GMT

Vincent and Mohammed, from eBM WebSourcing, gave a presentation about SCA support in PEtALS during last OW2 meeting. You can check it out here.

PEtALS at JavaOne 2008, San Fancisco

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT

PEtALS will be presented at JavaOne 2008, May 6-8 at San Francisco on the OW2 booth (#212). The presentation will focus on how you can virtualize your services with PEtALS and will introduce some integration use cases.

v2.1.2 Maintenance Release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 25 April 2008 18:00:00 GMT

PEtALS Platform

The 2.1.2 version of PEtALS Platform is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

Workflow Demonstration Update

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 16 April 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The workflow demonstration has just been updated. It is now available as Flash demonstration.
Check it out here.

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Tue, 08 April 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.7 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Wed, 27 March 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.6 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

Bonita based demonstration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 13 March 2008 14:36:00 GMT

A new Petals demonstration is available: Petals Workflow 1.0.
This demonstration shows how Bonita SE and Petals Bonita Hooks work. The release contains two demos, based on a maintenance workflow, using Bonita.

The Stock Demo demonstrates calling a Petals service to process automatically the "Stock" workflow activity, using the PetalsAutomaticHook.
The Stock and Resupply Demo processes the "Resupply" manual activity outside of the Bonita web console and delegates this activity to the Petals network. The PetalsManualHook is used to call a FileTransfer service to export the workflow state in a XML file. The user edits this file. Then an other FileTransfer service reads the edited file and calls Bonita SE. Bonita SE interacts with Bonita to start and stop the "Resupply" activity and to update the workflow properties with the data provided by the user.

Look at the demonstration page to download the required packages.

JBI 1.0 Certified

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 12 March 2008 09:36:00 GMT

PEtALS 2.1.1.1 Quickstart distribution has been officially JBI certified by SUN Microsystems.
This petals-kernel-2.1.1 based distribution has successfully passed the JBI compatibility test suite (JBI TCK).
In other words it means that PEtALS is 100% JBI compatible.

Thanks to all developers and contributors !

Bonita Service Engine 1.0

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 10 March 2008 10:01:00 GMT

The first version of Bonita Service Engine has just been released.
The Bonita Service Engine allows you to interact with the Bonita v3 workflow engine. From PEtALS you can instanciate workflows, list the workflow models present in Bonita, list the activities of a user, read the state of running workflows, modify the properties of the workflows, start and stop activities.
You can also use Bonita Service Engine for building a custom GUI replacing the Bonita console.

Note that complementary to the Bonita Service Engine, it is possible to let Bonita call PEtALS services (and therefore provide distributed orchestration) using the RMI BC and petals-specific "hooks" for Bonita that are provided with the petals-workflow demo (RMI BC and workflow demo both to be released next week). The component documentation and the petals-workflow demo will help you to use Bonita SE.

Download links are available on the components page.

SOAP Binding Component 3.1-beta1

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 07 March 2008 12:01:00 GMT

The SOAP Binding Component 3.1-beta1 has been released.
It provides new features such has REST Services support and WS notifications persistence.

Download links are available on the components page.

PEtALS on Ohloh Open Source Network

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 05 March 2008 16:01:00 GMT

PEtALS is now fully available on Ohloh.net. Ohloh is an open source network that connects people through the software they create and use. It also provides statistics on the source code, commiters, users...
Please visit PEtALS project page on Ohloh and register yourself.

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Wed, 05 March 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.5 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

PEtALS Quickstart Distribution Update

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT

The PEtAlS Quickstart distributtion has been fixed. The new 2.1.1.1 version embeds missing usecases.
Look at the release notes for more details.

PEtALS Quickstart Distribution

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:01:00 GMT

The PEtALS Team is pleased to announce a new release named "PEtALS Quickstart".
This release is baed on the petals-kernel 2.1.1 and provides an embedded WebConsole. It also comes with a set of simple usecases which introduces how to use PEtALS ESB. Look at the release notes for more details.

PEtALS February releases

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Lot of new releases this month : Kernel 2.1, 2.1.1, CDK 3.0, JBI Components, WebConsole 1.1, Maven Plugin 1.3.1. Look at the release notes for more details.

WS Portal Demonstration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:30:01 GMT

A demonstration with the new BPEL component has been added in the demonstrations.

BPEL Service Engine

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:30:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the beta release of a new Service Engine. Based on the Orchestra project, the petals-se-orchestra provides BPEL features to orchestrate JBI services inside the Bus.

Introducing the last webconsole...

Gael Blondelle — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:25:00 GMT

The webconsole is evolving into a brand new administration and monitoring tool for PEtALS. For now it is available in the "petals-webconsole" branch, it'll be merged with the trunk soon. You can have a look at it in the flash WebConsole demonstration.

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Fri, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.4 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

eXo Platform integration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:03:00 GMT

The WebConsole has been integrated as a portlet into eXo platform. Have a look to the flash demonstration here.

Kernel 2.1-beta1 and CDK 3.0-beta2 based releases

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 19 Dec 2007 09:34:00 GMT

We have just released beta versions of the CDK, components and platform. Have a look to the release notes for more details.

RSS feed

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:00:00 GMT

The PEtALS news are now available as RSS 2.0 feed http://petals.ow2.org/rss/news.rss

Component Framework Maintenance Release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:35:00 GMT

The PEtALS Component Framework 2.1.2 has been released. It mainly fixes character encoding of JBI payloads.

Kernel 2.1-beta1 based Releases

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 17 Dec 2007 21:35:00 GMT

The kernel 2.1-beta1 has been released. It comes with a lot of enhancements and two types of distribution :

Standalone 1.0-beta1 : A real standalone mode (no more distributed among servers) which starts quickly
Platform 1.0-beta1 : Replaces the old standalone (which was not really standalone...). Provides distributed features.

WebConsole Demonstration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

A flash demonstration of the WebConsole is available online .

PEtALS at JavaPolis '07 (Antwerp, Belgium)

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:00:00 GMT

We are at the Javapolis 07 conference. Come and see us on the OW2 booth or at the 'Leading Open Source Middleware in Action' talk today at 2pm.

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.3 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

Online Flash demonstration

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT

A PEtALS and CimeroV2 Editor Flash demonstration is available online .

Maintenance Release

christophe.deneux@capgemini.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT

Standalone Platform

The 1.4.2 version is out. This is a maintenance release.

Look at the release notes for more details.

PEtALS 2.0 Service Pack release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:00:00 GMT

PEtALS 2.0 is out and comes within a ServicePack. It provides all the petals-kernel 2.0 compatible modules.

Platform

Kernel and standalone 2.0
Distributed environment : The PETALS nodes uses jgroups for topology and discovery.
Lot of Bug fixes and improvments

Components

File Transfer binding component 1.5
HTTP binding component 0.1
FTP binding component 2.0
Mail binding component 2.0
JMS binding component 2.0
SOAP binding component 2.1.2
XMPP binding component 1.0
RMI service engine 1.0
Script service engine 0.1
XSLT service engine 2.0
...

Tools

Eclipse development and monitoring plugin
Component Development Kit 3.0
Monitoring and administration Web Console 2.0
Fractal Development Framework 1.0

Look at the release notes for more details.

New WebSite

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Welcome to this new Website; good bye old Wiki !

Maintenance release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The platform 1.4.1 is out. This is a maintenance release.

Releases and more

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Component

Welcome to a new component : Enterprise Integration Pattern Service Engine (petals-se-eip).

Component Framework

The 2.0.1 version is out. It is a maintenance release which fixes several bugs.

Roadmap

We are on the PEtALS 2.0 iteration. The release is planned for next month. The pack will include lot of interesting things such as an Eclipse plugin, new components… Stay tuned !

Releases

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Platform

The PEtALS standalone version 1.4 is out with :

Integration of a faster message transporter (Dream based)
Load balancing
obustness
and of course several bug fixes and code optimization

Component framework

The Component Development Kit is now named PEtALS Component Framework (PCF). It allows developers to quickly create powerful JBI components.

Component

The new SOAP Binding Component (petals-bc-soap v2.0) is based on the PCF 2.0. It has been optimized, based on the PCF 2.0 and provides new features such has WS Notifications and Ws Security.

PEtALS 1.3 and Azalee pack

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 01 jun 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Platform

Distributed environment : The PETALS nodes topology can be configured statically. The standard multicast auto-discovering is disabled in this mode
IBM JVM compatibility

Components

The ComponentDevelopmentKit eases the JMX exposition of components configuration attributes during installation phase
A new FTP binding component

Web Admin

The Web Administrative console manages JBI components

PEtALS 1.2

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:00:00 GMT

PEtALS is now delivered as separated packages. The platform, JBI components, demonstrators and tools are now released independently.

The global PEtALS package is now called PEtALS Service Pack and gathered all elements in their own version.

Platform

The MessageExchanges delivering mode has been improved and corrects a fault in the persistance of pending messages.
The NormalizedMessageRouter features new routing rules : a message is firstly addressed to local a ServiceEndpoint, secondly to a distant ServiceEndpoint, and finally to a ServiceEndpoint hosted on a stopped container.
The path of the repository where components and service assemblies are stored can be set.
The PEtALS platform is also available as a Web Application and can be deployed on standard WebServer or J2EE Server.
The petals-webadmin monitoring console features graphics that show instant message-traffic in a container.
Bugs in Ant tasks have been corrected.

Components

Component Development Kit : Each PEtALS component is built on a configurable thread-pool. It allows to tune each ServiceEngines or BindingComponents to fit your usage.
See the CDK documentation
Axis2BC : the SOAP BC now supports attachments for incoming and outgoing SOAP messages.
Forward : an EnterpriseIntegrationPattern Component to chain service calls.

Planned works

The transport layer will provide both a JMS transporter and an RMI transporter (faster but less reliability) based on DREAM (OW2 project).
Eclipse-based tools to create components, PEtALS network administration,...
PEtALS-network deployment, allowing to deploy servers on a network and install components and service-assemblies on them.
other functionalities to come...

PEtALS 1.1

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:00:00 GMT

PEtALS 1.1 includes the following features since PEtALS1.0 :

Platform

Several optimizations appear, especially on the message exchanges transport.

The message content (de)serialization has been optimized. The 64Ko limit has been corrected.
A JMS sessions pool as been introduced to send messages.
Non pertinent payloads are removed from MessageExchanges during transport.
MessageExchange persistence can be disabled for a specific message.
Acknowledgments (DONE/ERROR status messages) can be ommited for an exchange. (See the PEtALS UserGuide Optimizations section for a full description)
Components lifecycles are managed in independent threads.
A new web monitoring interface, user oriented, provided as a separate WebApplication.

Components

Component Development Kit : the CDK (previously called components-common library) offers an abstract ServiceEngine and BindingComponent framework with an integrated ServiceUnitManagement.
PEtALS components are now based on this CDK , promoting a consistent global design.
Axis2BC : the SOAP binding is embedded in the JETTY Http server. WSDL service descriptions are now dynamically exposed from JBI Service to SOAP clients and from external Services to JBI clients.
FileTransfer : The incoming/outgoing folder associated to a Service is configured with the ServiceUnit.
A new POJO ServiceEngine exposing Java classes as services.
A new CSV ServiceEngine transfoming text documents to XML documents.
* A new JDBC Binding Component with XQuery, based on XQuare libraries, interacting with databases to insert, query and apply storedQueries.

(See the PEtALS Components doc for CDK details and JBI components list)

PEtALS Installation

PEtALS is now packaged with an Installer, which allows you to select the elements to install (platform, components, demo,...).

The Component Development Kit is available independently of the PEtALS Installer.

Planned works

The transport layer will provide both a JMS transporter and an RMI transporter (faster but less reliability) based on DREAM (OW2 project).
The JMS transporter will be improved.
JBI TCK certification
Eclipse-based tools to create components, PEtALS network administration,...
PEtALS-network deployment, allowing to deploy servers on a network and install components and service-assemblies on them.
other functionalities to come...

PEtALS 1.1 M2

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Platform

This second milestone corrects some bugs on the platform.

It features the following optimizations :

non pertinent payloads are removed from MessageExchange during sending
MessageExchange persistence can be disabled for a specific message
Acknowledgments (status DONE messages) can be avoided during a specific exchange

(See the PEtALS UserGuide Optimizations section)

Distribution

PEtALS is now distributed as an Installer, which allows you to select the elements to install.

The Component Development Kit is available independently of the PEtALS platform.

Components

The major features comes with the PEtALS Components part :

Component Development Kit : the CDK (previously called components-common library) is nearly stable and documented on the wiki.
Nearly all PEtALS components are now based on this SDK , promoting a consistent global design.
Axis2BC : embedded in the JETTY Http server. Exposes JBI Services WSDL description to soap external client, and external WSDL description to JBI internal components ( = http://URI?wsdl).
FileTransfer : The incoming/outgoing folder associated to a Service is configured with the ServiceUnit.

Next milestone

The PEtALS 1.1 final version is planned to be released on January, the 24th 2007.

PEtALS 1.1 M1

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:00:00 GMT

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.

PEtALS 1.0 Final Version

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:00:00 GMT

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!

PEtALS 1.0 M4 release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:00:00 GMT

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.

Petals 1.0 M3 release

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:00:00 GMT

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.

Petals 1.0 Milestone 2 available

christophe.hamerling@ebmwebsourcing.com — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 GMT

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