The following new features are introduced with this release of Portus :
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 Portus , 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.
Data Masking
The ability to hide sensitive data by applying data masking algoritms.
