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<h1>WSO2 Business Process Server(WSO2 BPS) @product.version@
Release Notes</h1>
<h3>August 2016</h3>
<p>
WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) is an easy-to-use Open Source Business Process Server that
executes business processes written following WS-BPEL and WS-Human Task or BPMN 2.0 standards.
WS-BPEL is the defacto standard for composing multiple synchronous and asynchronous
web services into collaborative and transactional process flows which increase the flexibility
and agility of your Service Oriented Architecture. WS-Human Task allows people activities to be
integrated with business processes. WSO2 BPS is powered by
<a href="http://ode.apache.org">Apache ODE</a> and <a href="http://activiti.org/">Activiti <a>
available under<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache Software License
v2.0</a> WSO2 BPS provides a complete Web based graphical console to deploy,
manage and monitor business process and process instances.
</p>
<p>
WSO2 BPS is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform (Middleware a' la carte), and is based on
the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for you SOA. Carbon platform contains lots of new
features and many other optional components that can be used to customize or enhance the functionalities
provided by BPS to suits you SOA needs. In addition to installing optional components you can uninstall
unwanted features without any trouble.
</p>
<p>WSO2 BPS is an opensource product available under the
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html">Apache Software License (v2.0)</a>
. This includes all of the extra integration and management functionality as well.
</p>
<h2>Key Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard.</li>
<li>Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with a frequently used subset of BPMN 2.0 standard.</li>
<li>Support for Human Interactions in BPEL Processes with WS-Human Task and BPEL4People.</li>
<li>Managing BPEL / BPMN packages, processes and process instances.</li>
<li>BPEL Extensions and XPath extensions support</li>
<li>Instance recovery(Only supports 'Invoke' activity) support through management console</li>
<li>OpenJPA based Data Access Layer For BPEL and Human Tasks</li>
<li>WS-Security support for business processes.</li>
<li>Support for invoking secured(Using WS-Security) partner services.</li>
<li>Support for HumanTask Coordination</li>
<li>BPEL / BPMN Package hot update which facilitate Versioning</li>
<li>Human Task versioning support</li>
<li>E4X based data manipulation support for BPEL assignments</li>
<li>Configure external data base system as the BPEL / BPMN engine's persistence storage</li>
<li>Throttling support for business processes.</li>
<li>Transport management.</li>
<li>Internationalized web based management console.</li>
<li>System monitoring.</li>
<li>Try-it for business processes.</li>
<li>SOAP Message Tracing.</li>
<li>End-point configuration mechanism based on WSO2 Unified Endpoints.</li>
<li>Customizable server - You can customize the BPS to fit into your
exact requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new
optional features.
</li>
<li>Clustering support for BPEL engine.</li>
<li>Process monitoring with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor</li>
<li>JMX monitoring support </li>
<li>Comprehensive and customizable web application for managing human tasks.</li>
<li>Comprehensive and customizable web application for managing bpmn instances and user tasks</li>
<li>Human Task UI form Generation support</li>
<li>Ability to publish statistics to WSO2 Data Analytics server for analysis</li>
<li>Reporting dashboards for BPMN</li>
<li>Data manipulation support for BPMN with JSON and XML</li>
<li>Human Task Editor with Developer Studio</li>
<li>BPMN Process Instance Search/Monitoring capability</li>
<li>BPMN Task user substitution feature</li>
<li>Enhanced rest service invoker extension for BPMN</li>
<li>SOAP service invoker extension for BPMN</li>
<li>Process cleanup tool to remove RETIRED versions of bpel processes </li>
</ul>
<h2>New Features In This Release</h2>
<ul>
<li>BPMN rest api improvements</li>
<li>Data manipulation support for BPMN with JSON and XML</li>
<li>Human Task Editor with Developer Studio</li>
<li>BPMN Process Instance Search/Monitoring capability</li>
<li>BPMN Task user substitution feature</li>
<li>Enhanced rest service invoker extension for BPMN</li>
<li>SOAP service invoker extension for BPMN</li>
<li>Many other bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h2>Issues Fixed for this release</h2>
<ul>
<li>WSO2 BPS related components of the WSO2 Carbon Platform -
<a href="https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13298">Resolved Issues.</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>XML & WS-* Standards Support</h2>
<ul>
<li>BPMN 2.0</li>
<li>BPEL4WS 1.1</li>
<li>WS-BPEL 2.0</li>
<li>WS-Human Task 1.1</li>
<li>BPEL4People 1.1</li>
<li>SOAP 1.1/1.2</li>
<li>WSDL 1.1</li>
<li>WSDL 2.0</li>
<li>MTOM, XOP & SOAP with Attachments</li>
<li>WS-Addressing</li>
<li>WS-Security 1.0/1.1</li>
<li>WS-Trust</li>
<li>WS-SecurityPolicy</li>
<li>WS-Policy</li>
<li>WS-PolicyAttachment</li>
</ul>
<h2>Open Source components included in WSO2 BPS/Java</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache ODE (BPEL)</li>
<li>Activiti (BPMN)</li>
<li>Apache Axis2 (SOAP)</li>
<li>Apache Axiom (High performance XML Object Model)</li>
<li>Apache Rampart/Apache WSS4J (WS-Security)</li>
<li>Apache Rahas(WS-SecureConversation)</li>
<li>Apache Batik</li>
<li>WS-Addressing implementation in Axis2</li>
<li>Apache Neethi (WS-Policy)</li>
<li>WS-SecurityPolicy implementation in Axis2</li>
<li>Apache XML Schema</li>
<li>Apache OpenJPA</li>
<li>Embedded Apache Tomcat</li>
<li>Spring Framework</li>
</ul>
<h2>Apache Axis2 modules included with WSO2 BPS</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security & WS-Trust</li>
<li>Apache Rahas: Supporting WS-SecureConversation</li>
<li>Statistics: For gathering & monitoring statistics</li>
<li>SOAP Tracer: For tracing SOAP requests & responses</li>
<li>XKMS: Supporting XML Key Management Specification</li>
</ul>
<h2>Known Issues</h2>
<ul>
<li>WS-Human Task implementation does not support sub tasks and lean tasks.
BPEL4People only supports remote tasks and remote notification creation.
</li>
<li>For a complete list of features to be implemented please refer the list of known issues :
<a href="https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13299">Known Issues</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<h2>Reporting Problems</h2>
<ul>
<li>Issues can be reported using the BPS public JIRA available at
<a href="https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BPS" target="_blank">
https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BPS</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Contact us</h2>
WSO2 developers can be contacted via the mailing list:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
<br></br>
For details on subscriptions see
<a href="http://wso2.org/mail">
http://wso2.org/mail</a>
<br></br>
<h2>Support</h2>
<p>
We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from
evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development
methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology.
<br/>
<br/>
For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visit
<a target="_blank" href="http://wso2.com/support/">http://wso2.com/support/</a>
</p>
<p> For more information about WSO2 BPS, please see
<a href="http://wso2.com/products/business-process-server/" target="_blank">http://wso2.com/products/business-process-server/</a>
</p>
<p>Thank you for your interest in WSO2 BPS</p>
<strong>
<em>- The WSO2 BPS Team -</em>
</strong>
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