For functionality details and screenshots of the feature set, refer to the Release Notes.
ChainBuilder ESB 2.1 Release -- Released March 2009
- Improve the ETL Editors and runtime components
- Eclipse-based Context-based Online Help and up-to-date documentation
- Support the SMAT (Saved Message Administrative Tool) - message saving, editing, and resend from Admin Console
- Performance and scalability improvement
- Additional Macros for DATE
- Undo support in Map Editor
- File and Directory browser button in Component Flow Editor and IDE
- Visual indicator for SMAT and UPoC in Component Flow Editor
- Usability improvement and UI consistence in IDE and Admin Console
- Transactional support for JMS, JDBC, ETL components.
- TransactionHandler custom component to support JTA transaction
- Eclipse 3.4 support and other third-party library upgrades
ChainBuilder ESB 2.0 Release --- Released October, 2008
- Enhanced IDE, Format Editor, X12/HL7 Variant Editor and Map Editor
- Multiple Component Flow files in a Service Assembly project and Connector framework
- XPath and DOM support in Transformer Runtime
- Admin Console Portal framework to host multiple plug-in Console applications
- Unix installer to support AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux
- Admin Console is supported in Tomcat and IBM Websphere Application Server
- Enhanced exception handling in a component flow via the custom FaultHandler component
- Enhanced UPoC framework to support user parameters and support multiple UPoC programs in one context
- Runtime database import/export tools to ease version migration
ChainBuilder ESB 1.3 Release --- Released May, 2008
- Enhanced IDE and Map Editor
- Improved Web Services support for SOAP Header
- Java 6 support
- Auditing in Admin Console
- Command line tool to create Service Assembly Zip file
- Message validation option for XML schema and MDL-based definition in Transformer
- Improved error reporting and error database view for easier troubleshooting
ChainBuilder ESB 1.2 Release --- Released March, 2008
- Enhanced Admin Console - Additional functionality includes role based access control for multiple users, endpoint level statistics and real time status of components, service assemblies and endpoints, and improve statistics.
- Enhanced Map Editor - The XML model supports more complex structures (such as repeating groups, querying input data for values, detecting substitution groups.
- Apache Derby Server -- A separate dependent service replacing the Derby component.
- New JMS utilities tool - to manage the JMS queue
- File component support IN-OUT default MEP
- Allow multiple versions of CBESB on same machine
- ServiceMix 3.2.2 support
- New installers on Windows platform
See also, additional functionality in ChainBuilder ESB Professional
ChainBuilder ESB 1.1 Release --- Released August, 2007
- HL7 Editor - The eclipse plugin to define HL7 message or segment variant based on the standard from 2.1 to 2.5
- HL7 Parser - The parser SE to parse HL7 message into its XML representation.
- TCP/IP BC - Use TCP/IP BC as either client or server with SSL support.
- Certificate Manager - The eclipse plugin to import and manage key and certificate files
- Scheduling Support - To define cron like schedule for any components with polling time. It bases on the Quartz library
- HTTP BC - Supports SSL in HTTP BC
- Email (SMTP and POP3) BC – The component to send and receive emails
- Custom Component Framework - Allow user-defined components to be used in Component Flow Editor
- ServiceMix 3.1 support
ChainBuilder ESB 1.0 Release -- Released Feb, 2007
- 100% Java-based; Accelerated development by using ServiceMix ESB Container and other established open source products
- XML and non-XML data handling - X12 map editor and general format editors in first release.
- Traditional Transformation - with XSLT mapping and transformation support
- Eclipse-based IDE - with testing capabilities in the map and format editors.
- Component Flow Editor - allows graphical and wizard configuration of JBI components.
- Protocol Support - for WebServices HTTP/SOAP, FTP, File and Java Messaging Service (JMS) for JMS-compliant servers, like IBM WebSphere MQ
- Dynamic Content-based Routing. - examines the message content through expression mapping and routes the message to destination endpoints.
- Web Interface Monitoring Console – remotely manage ESB structure through web interface.
- User Point of Control (UPoC) framework - to allow callouts to alter the pre-defined flow
- Regulated Component Development -- creates Java Business Integration (JBI)-compliant components
- Logging and Error Handling – improved over JBI specification
- Double-byte/Unicode character sets and localization support
- Operating Systems -- Windows and Linux platform support
- Source Code Availability
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