Neuron ESB 2.5.13 Pre Release Announcement

Hello Everyone,

As many of you know we've been hard at work on a feature release for July.  Our goal is to send out a general announcement at the end of this week (July 29th) to let users know where to download it, and how to use some of the new features.  The "how to use" part though may come over the weekend, as I think there is a lot to write about :).

I'm personally very excited about this release as it’s going to include many features I think a lot of our customers have wanted, and many features that will make developing and deploying Neuron solutions much easier to do. Besides new features, this release will include all the accumulated bug fixes from the past few months.

Some of the features we’re including in this release are:

• Custom Pipeline Steps – Users will be able to create a reusable custom Pipeline Steps, register them, and use them within the Neuron ESB Pipeline Designer by simple drag and drop.
• MSMQ Pipeline Step – This will provide users the ability to send messages to a Queue within a pipeline.  It will also support correlated receives from a Queue as well.
• Pipeline Execution Pipeline Step – Provides the ability to create composite pipelines by executing existing pipelines within a pipeline for easy reuse.
• Global Pipeline Cache – This will support the creation and initialization of any variable type that can be used across all instances of a pipeline executed by a Neuron Party
• Custom SOAP Header Support for the Service Pipeline Step
• Dynamic Transform Pipeline Step – Allows users to determine XSLT to run at runtime, rather than design time
• Dynamic Schema Pipeline Step – Allows users to determine Schema to validate against at runtime, rather than design time
• Environmental Variable support for Service/Client Connectors – This was the last step to make deployment truly easy for all customers. This deprecates the use of the Addresses tab located on Deployment Groups.
• Multi-threaded receive for MSMQ based topics – This provides performance enhancements.
• MSMQ Time to Live – The ability to set this property at the Topic level
• WSDL support for Client Connectors - Ability to associate an existing WSDL endpoint with Client connectors so developers can use “add service reference” or “add web reference” within Visual Studio by referencing the client connector configured urls
• Resubmit – the ability to resubmit a message directly from either the Audit or Failed Message reports.  In the next feature release we’re going to try to introduce bulk resubmit as well as the ability to resubmit to a specific adapter or service endpoint.
• Reorder Pipelines – The ability to re order pipelines for a party within the UI so that users do not have to remove and then re-add.
• RFID Sync and Async enhancements – Refactored to increase performance by 10 fold, as well as remove need to modify configuration files and enhanced tracing
• Scatter Gather Sample – Updated the scatter gather sample and documentation (Web Service Scatter Gather Pattern) to use new Dynamic Transform Pipeline Steps
• Neuron Farm Enhancements – Numerous fixes were introduced to support Neuron Farm mode with TCP based topics
• Unique WMI Performance Counters– We no longer generate performance counter names using Guids.  Now they are generated by appending the Party Name with a number.  So if only one instance of a Party is used, the Performance counter name will now be predictable.

Stay tuned this channel!  Once I finish the “What’s New” and “How to use it” documentation, I’ll post the download link and the docs.

Kind regards,

Marty Wasznicky
Neuron ESB

Neudesic, L.L.C.          
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