Cape Clear 7.5 Technical Preview
Overview
The technical preview of Cape Clear 7.5 is now available on a limited basis. A major new release, 7.5 includes extensive support for multi-channel, multi-tenanted integration styles, key requirements for on-demand integration. It also includes a significant number of enhancements to our BPEL engine and tools, and to our server runtime and tools.
Highlights include:
Multi-channel mediations: Unified, spring-based configuration of ‘mediations’—collections of transports, transformations, policies, routes and errors which flexibly and bi-directionally link clients to servers.
Multi-tenanted integration: A set of capabilities which make the Cape Clear ESB ‘multi-tenanted’—services and mediations can be deployed, monitored, and managed on a ‘per-client’ basis, with multiple instances existing concurrently within a single server.
Replay of BPEL scripts—the ability to re-submit any message previously delivered to the BPEL engine even if the original process failed or stalled processes—as well as the ability to manually edit process instance state information.
Our BPEL engine and tools have been significantly enhanced based on user feedback. Features include a new invoke-retry service which can be used to provide a greater degree of resilience to intermittent connection problems when communicating over HTTP from BPEL; we have re-engineered the copy dialog in the BPEL editor to provide more intuitive interaction and better schema support; we have enhanced BPEL Flow and WS-Addressing support and much more.
Support for the Web Service enablement of Database Stored Procedures ensures that DB stored procedures can easily be exposed as Web Services.
Enhanced Test capabilities now provide support for testing JMS interactions or interactions using WS-Security. The sample creation capabilities of the tester have been enhanced to provide more sophisticated support for XML schema constructs.
