[esb-announce] Release of ESB 4.8

We are rounding off the week on a high note, with the next release of the ESB project, 4.8. This is now available for download from our project site. The primary purpose of this release is to incorporate the many improvements made as part of the productisation process for the SOA platform, feeding these back through the community. Our main focus during the productisation process concerned the performance of the ESB, resulting in numerous improvements in this area. The other notable improvements during this process were - updating to the jUDDI v3.0.1 codebase - better jUDDI integration through our InVM and RMI transports - addition of webservice endpoints for jUDDI - Updating to picketlink 1.0.1 - improved job scheduling through our jBPM scheduler - Many SOAP proxy improvements - Many JON management improvements and not to mention numerous bug fixes. Thanks go to everyone for the tremendous effort during these releases. Kev -- JBoss by Red Hat Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in UK and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Charlie Peters (USA), Matt Parsons (USA) and Brendan Lane (Ireland)