I’m proud to say that v1.5 of the WSO2 Mashup Server is now available for download!  This release has been a few months in the making, and I’m thrilled to see a major update to the Mashup Server finally out.  News release here. 

Thanks to the efforts of Keith, Tyrell, Channa, Yumani, and many others at WSO2, we’ve been able to put some snazzy new features in this release:

• Integrated award-winning Data Services: quickly and with zero-coding map queries on your databases, Excel spreadsheets, or CSV files into Web services.
• Google Gadgets: power a Google gadget with a mashup service - we generate a try-it, a code template for customizing the gadget, and even a build in Gadget dashboard based on Apache Shindig.
• Security, security, security: Limit access to your mashup service to only authorized users, encrypt and sign your messages, and access services which are secured.  I think our security interface is the easiest way to engage advanced WS-Security features that’s out there!
• OpenID login support.

There’s lots of little improvements too, and I hope to talk about those, as well as the major features above, in upcoming posts.

For now though, a hearty congratulations and a good night’s sleep to the Mashup Server team!