Celtix 1.0 Released!

["Sakala, Adinarayana" <ASAKALA@xxxxxxxx>]

Celtix Dev Team is pleased to announce that Celtix 1.0 is now released and 
available for download at 
http://forge.objectweb.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192

Celtix 1.0 provides users with a feature-rich, open source ESB runtime that 
can support any organization's adoption of Service Oriented Architecture 
(SOA) in the enterprise.

The Celtix project was initiated in June 2005 and Celtix 1.0 is the result of 
five consecutive on-schedule delivery of key project milestones. The 
availability of an open source ESB that offers comparable features and 
functionality to many commercially available ESB products provides users with 
an effective, standards-based foundation from which their SOA initiatives can 
be rapidly built and extended.

The features contained in this release include:

    * Persistence support for Reliable Messaging based on Apache Derby
    * HTTPS based security support
    * Support for Javascript based webservices.
    * Support for changing configuration dynamically
    * Management support for additional Celtix components
    * Support for wsdlvalidator commandline tool
    * Routing support for all Celtix bindings and transports
    * Enhanced routing capabilities
    * WS-Addressing support for JMS based services
    * Interoperability with .NET.
    * Support for Maven 2.0.4
    * Support for running Celtix inside Apache Tuscany
    * Support for Webservice callbacks

Features completed in previous releases include:

    * Support for JAX-WS Dispatch APIs
    * Support for JAX-WS Provider APIs
    * Support for non-wrapper Doc/Literal style
    * Celtix based javatowsdl tool
    * Celtix based wsdltojava tool
    * First cut of transport APIs
    * Enhanced binding API for better pluggability
    * Support for Protocol Handlers
    * Support for Logical Handlers
    * Support for Contexts
    * SOAP 1.1 support for doc/rpc literal
    * Support for SOAP 1.1 faults
    * Support for SOAP 1.1 headers
    * Support for JAX-WS Sync APIs
    * Support for JAX-WS One-Way APIs
    * Support for inout and out variables
    * HTTP 1.1 transport
    * HTTP servlet transport
    * JMS transport based on Active MQ
    * Support for WS-Addressing
    * Support for JAX-WS async client APIs
    * Policy based configuration
    * Support for StreamHandler APIs
    * WS-RM based support for Webservices Reliability
    * Support for JMX based management
    * XML Binding
    * New commandline tools: xsd2wsdl, wsdl2xml, wsdl2soap, wsdl2service
    * Native integration into Apache Geronimo J2EE appserver
    * Support for validating application data against XMLSchema
    * Enhanced support for deploying celtix services into a servlet container 
      based on feedback from Jonas J2EE appserver project

More info on Celtix planned Releases and Milestones can be found at, 
https://wiki.objectweb.org/celtix/Wiki.jsp?page=Milestones

Our website now hosts a demo page whose intent is to provide demo 
applications to help you get up and running quickly with Celtix. Checkout, 
http://celtix.objectweb.org/demos/index.html. We encourage you to download 
them, run them and enjoy the learning process!

Celtix documentation is also available from our website at, 
http://celtix.objectweb.org/docs/index.html.

We are constantly working on improving the code base and welcome your 
valuable feedback.

Please share your experience and send questions/comments to 
celtix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and development-related issues to 
celtix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

1.0 related issues can be logged and tracked at 
http://forge.objectweb.org/tracker/?group_id=192

Best Regards,
Celtix Dev Team