The major release 1.0 scheduled for decembre 2009:

• Share services (Publish): make services available to all interested parties
  • Import services from service descriptions (WSDL 1.1 and 2.0): URL, file system and XML dataset import
  • Import services from execution environments : Petals ESB
• Reuse services (Find): find available services that fits your needs
  • Keywords based search: name, categories ("tags"), provided operations, protocole, description, enterprise/person roles (providers, developpers, etc.), related documents (specifications, etc.)
  • Execution environment browser: search services deployed on specific Petals nodes or Servers
  • UDDI based search: Inquiry API v2 and v3 supported
• Evaluate services (Document, Enrich): services meet your needs ?
  • Related documents (specifications, test reports, documentations, etc.): supported document formats are PDF, DOC, HTML
  • Community aspects: service and enpoint ratings, tags and comments

Proposed features for the next release:

Following are a number of different areas on which we plan to work until the next release. You could contribute by commiting code or simply by sending a message on forum or mailing-list with your priorities.

• Advanced user profile and roles
  • Role customization: create your own roles based on customized sets of accessible features
• WSDL dependencies support including imported WSDL and XML schemas
• Enriched WSDL support including: security and reliability policies, SAWSDL (WSDL with sementic annotations)
• Service versioning and lifecycle management
• Enriched service information including non functional data like response time, availability etc.
• Reporting and Notifications
  • Dashboards: service reuse factor, test reports, availability, response time, failures, etc.
  • RSS or email subscription to be notified on service changes
• Impact analysis
• Full SLA support: SLA enforcement, service contract creation and management based on information collected on execution environments