Wise 1.0.1 is on the way

Wise's team has decided to publish a 1.0.1 release shortly.

We are doing that because we are doing some improvement related to our integration with JBoss ESB. Moreover we have found some subtle concurrency issue and we have fixed them.

That said, I'm writing this post mainly to announce that starting from Wise-core will be also a deployable sar in JBoss AS supporting Wise based webservice invocation also from web application and EJB. If you have time take a look to our svn and in particular to 2 samples demonstrating this use:

1. HelloWorldServlet that demonstrate the use of Wise-core into a servlet
2. seamSample that is a seam-gen generated sample which is able to invoke a webservice using Wise-core API with very little coding.

Any suggestions and feedbacks about would be very very appreciated through our Jira or our forums.

After this release we will concentrate on Wise 1.1 that will be focused on our web GUI tools on which we are getting help from a new member of our team (welcome Fabrizio!).

If you like Wise and all efforts we are doing about, don't forget that our Project Leader (Stefano Maestri, well...me) is an external contributor and he is enlisted for JBoss Community Leader Award. Your vote would be more than welcome.

Wise's code_swarm

As a lot of projects leader are doing in these days, I have fallen into temptation of code_swarm and I've generated Wise's svn code_swarm movie.

Oki, it seems a bit ridiculous if you compare it with other JBoss projects ones, but you know we are a young project ;)

Anyway we are getting some good feedback from community for our 1.0 release and we are working hard to integrate it in ESB 4.5
If you have too some questions or feedbacks please join our user forum and shot.
Also our developer forum is active in these days planning next steps. Your 2 cents are more than welcome.

And now..... ladies and gentlemen Wise' code_swarm movie:

Wise 1.0 released

Our great team is proud to announce the 1.0 release of Wise project.

This release contains the Wise-core and Wise-Lms module

Wise-core module 1.0 release aims to provide stable APIs for JAX-WS webservice invocation and some new cool feature. Take a look to our Programmers guide for a complete description of the features and possible uses of our APIs. Let us remark some of these features:

• Support of MTOM, WS-Security, and WS-Addressing
• Support of (J)Ruby. As for Groovy, the question is why Wise instead of some native Ruby WS client? For a lot of reasons, like Smooks transformation support, support of WS-*
• Initial support of JAX-RS
• More samples
  

Wise-Lms module is a new module: Lms is an acronym for Logging Meta Service. Lms' goal and use are very similar to the axis' tcp monitor ones: it logs any tcp communication and gives developers the opportunity to review any request-response communications. Lms is a JBoss deployable application (an ear) and have a jmx mbean as application core and a web user interface to make its use easy. To have more information please refer to our documentation of Wise-Lms module.

What are next step for the project? For sure we will work in next weeks on JBossESB integration, but we have already opened discussion on 1.1 roadmap and something will be announced very very soon. Join the discussion on our forums and give your 2c on roadmap discussion and/or give us your feedback about current version. Of course feel free to report bugs or feature requests in our Jira

Wise 1.0 roadmap

Wise team has just started the coding phase driving us to 1.0 release.

Some highlight of 1.0 roadmap:

• Support of WS-Security, WS-RM and WS-Addressing
• Support of (J)Ruby. As for Groovy, the question is why Wise instead of some native Ruby WS client? For a lot of reasons, like Smooks (and not only) transformation support, support of WS-*,
• Support of xjc for JAXB object generation from an XSD (not necessary embedded/linked in wsdl). That's good itself, but moreover it's the first step needed to support JAX-RS too.
• first release of LMS subproject

Moreover this release would provide a stable API to our user.

Would you lend an hand? Join our forums, discuss issues with us, test 0.9 release and provide patches and purpose new features. If you want to contribute don't miss our contributor guideline

We have also started a discussion about Wise webgui that will not be in this relase, but could be very interesting, and for which we would like very much contributions from community (and we are also getting some!)

Wise 0.9 released

We are proud to announce the first JBoss's release of Wise project.

This release contains only the Wise-core module with all basic features enabled. Take a look to our Programmers guide for a complete description of the features and possible uses of our APIs.

Some cool features we would remark are:

1. One line of code invocation
2. Interactively explore your wsdl objects
3. Support of Groovy
4. Support of standard and Smooks' based JAX-WS handlers
   
5. WiseMapper: from your own object model to the generated JAX-WS model and vice versa. We Support year both Smooks and your own custom mapper.

We are working hard to define the definitive roadmap for 1.0 release (scheduled before the end of the year) and we will post about here very soon.

This first release have to be considered as a preview release kicked out to ask feedback from the community for our APIs. We don't consider at this level API stable, but we would stabilize them before the end of the year and so we are publishing a preview of our 1.0 release.
Please have a look, get it to play and give us feedback in our developer forum. Of course don't hesitate to ask help in our user forum too.

Stay tuned for 1.0 roadmap...you could get some great surprises ;)

Reasons for a code donation

As said in announcing post Wise comes from a code donation.

I have just posted on my personal blog my reasons for this code donation.

I'm cross posting here because community may be interested ;)

Wise is JBoss.org project

We are proud to announce Wise is a JBoss.org project.

Wise is an acronym standing for Wise Invokes Services Easily

Wise comes from a code donation by Stefano Maestri and Alessio Soldano and it has already been included in JBossESB 4.4 as new webservice client.

What is Wise? In a nutshell it's building a java framework to invoke webservices easily, usable as base for zero-code webservices invocation application. But it's much more than this, aiming to provide also a web based generic interface to invoke web service, and a tool keeping track of serice invocations and soap message exchanged.

Take a look to its homepage for much more infos.

We will have in few days our first release signed JBoss.org and a bright roadmap is coming too on this blog.

Stay tuned