New Features

Fabric3 1.9.5/1.9.6 contains a number of new features, enhancements and bug fixes. These are described below by theme.

Kernel Refactoring

  • Component instance management refactoried for singnficant performance increase and improved memory usage

    File System Binding

  • Binding for sending and receiving batch data

    WebLogic Integration

  • Simplified WebLogic configuration
  • Improved clustering
  • Support for the Fabric3 Resource Management Framework on WebLogic
  • Support for WebLogic Server 10.3.6
  • Implemented dynamic channels

    Tomcat Integration

  • Tomcat 7 siupport
  • Refactored integration architecture
  • Simplified configuration

    Web Services

  • Binding handler framework for accessing transport headers messages

    Platforms

  • Support for AIX
  • Support for the IBM J9 VM

    JMS

  • Message pausing for services

    Samples

  • BigBank re-write to demonstrate updated best-practices

    Third-Party Libraries

  • ActiveMQ upgraded to 5.6.0
  • Atmosphere upgraded to 0.9.2
  • Atomikos upgraded to 3.7.0
  • Jetty upgraded to 8.0.4
  • JGroups upgraded to 3.0
  • Metro upgraded to 2.0.1
  • Spring upgraded to 3.0.6
  • WoodStox upgrded to 4.1.3

    Bug fixes

  • See JIRA for bug fixes for 1.9.6: resolved issues
  • See JIRA for bug fixes for 1.9.5: resolved issues
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