7.5 hits the bricks

Cape Clear 7.5 Released - Huzzah! So what is new? Along with all the usuals (faster, better, more stable, more stuff) the main feature is Assemblies. I've put an example of these up before. So what are assemblies? They are:

• stateless,
  
• high-performance,
  
• soap-agnostic,
  
• spring-configured,
• message-oriented,
• micro-flows
  

Assemblies allow you to create processing chains that wire transports, processing steps, routing strategies and web services together in the one file. They accept any kind of message: (SOAP, XML, Text, binary, whatever)
over multiple transports (SOAP/HTTP, REST/HTTP, XML/HTTP, JMS, File,
FTP, Email, etc) and allow it to be processed and routed along.


A natural question to ask is why would I need Assemblies when I have BPEL? The answer is that they are complimentary technologies. BPEL's sweet-spot is modeling stateful, recoverable processes that orchestrate Web Services - a task it does extremely well. However, not all integration problems have these features. Assemblies by contrast are about stateless message processing - taking a message, transforming and routing it. Assemblies also provide a much simpler to create and understand than BPEL.

Anyway, try it out for yourself.

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