The following new features are introduced with this release of SOA Gateway :

• Enhanced support for Statistics

  Metrics can be now gathered at the web service level and at the driver level.

• New Lifecycle Governance

  Support for Web Service Governance, allowing multiple versions of the same web service to co-exist, and track the lifecycle of services from Test, to Production, to Deprecation.

• New Usage Governance

  Support for Usage Governance which enables real-time monitoring of web services through logging of data such as input, output, user, location and time.

• Message Oriented Middleware

  Support for messaging systems IBM WebSphere MQ and Software AG EntireX Broker to log and process usage governance data.

• Enhanced REST functionality

  Enhancements in REST support, allowing complex web service structures to be passed in a concise manner as part of the URL.

• Business Data View Enhancements

  Enhancements in BDV support, allowing grouping, nesting and versioning of all BDV Web Services .

• Web Service Driver

  A new driver which allows web services to be called from SOA Gateway , opening up new connectivity routes for legacy infrastructure.

• Employees Demo Enhancements

  Support for the nested keys on database resources, including support for the latest version of Software AG's Employees Demo Files.

• Xerces v31

  Performance and functional improvments in XML processing, including integration of the latest and greatest version of the XML parsing library, Xerces.

• Control Centre

  The Control Centre has been greatly enhanced, by introducing a new, more compact Eclipse perspective, for easier maintenance.