[wildfly-dev] URGENT - RELEASE NOTES

[Alessio Soldano]

Hi Jason,
here is a brief summary of what's new in WFLY8 wrt webservices:

WildFly 8 comes with component upgrades in the Web Services area, 
JBossWS 4.2 and Apache CXF 2.7 series.
The most notable new features are:

* WebServiceFeature to control when to create new Apache CXF Bus 
instances and when / how to share them in the container

The strategy for selecting/creating Bus instances to serve 
(in-container) JAXWS client can be chosen by the final user. This allows 
better control and can also be used for performance tuning. You can read 
more about the new feature at [1].

* WS-Policy code-first improvements (@PolicySets)

Writing policy assertions for endpoint wsdl contracts is usually quite 
difficult and often represents an obstacle to quick development of 
ws-policy enabled endpoints prototypes. With the JBossWS version 
included in WildFly 8, we provide a @PolictSets annotation allowing 
users to choose desired policy assertions among a list of pre-defined 
groups serving well known needs / scenarios. Thef policy assertions are 
automatically attached to the proper elements in the wsdl contract that 
is generated at deployment time and the ws stack behaves accordingly at 
runtime. More documentation at [2].

* WS-Discovery support

Users can now have ws endpoints from selected deployments be 
automatically registered in a WS-Discovery service endpoint; that in 
turn can be queried to locate existing endpoints over the network. More 
documentation at [3].


[1] 
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/Apache+CXF+integration#ApacheCXFintegration-BusselectionstrategiesforJAXWSclients 

[2] 
https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/WS-Policy#WS-Policy-Policysets
[3] https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/WFLY8/WS-Discovery

On 11/02/14 16:10, Jason Greene wrote:
> The comparison point is 7.2 / EAP 6.1. Although don’t feel like you have to find every little thing, just the major important items you feel should be on the official release notes page.
>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Alessio Soldano <asoldano at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>> which version of JBoss AS 7 are you using to compare? I mean, you want
>> to highlight what is new in WFLY 8 Final compared to which version of AS 7?
>>
>> Alessio
>>
>> On 11/02/14 15:38, Jason Greene wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I am working on the release notes. In order to save time I thought I would try something new, and just ask that you email me a blurb covering anything important you want to announce in your area. This might be an interesting new feature, or it could be something the user should be aware of (compatibility change, important default changed).
>>>
>>> Take a look at CR1’s notes for an idea of what I am looking for:
>>> http://wildfly.org/news/2013/12/21/WildFly8-CR1-Released/
>>>
>>> I plan to duplicate most of this content, however, I know there are many other interesting things I did not cover, so this is your opportunity to highlight them.
>>>
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>>> Jason T. Greene
>>> WildFly Lead / JBoss EAP Platform Architect
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>> Alessio Soldano
>> Web Service Lead, JBoss
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-- 
Alessio Soldano
Web Service Lead, JBoss