Getting Ode

Apache ODE

Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine) executes business processes written following the WS-BPEL standard. It talks to web services, sending and receiving messages, handling data manipulation and error recovery as described by your process definition. It supports both long and short living process executions to orchestrate all the services that are part of your application.

Releases

The latest stable release is Apache ODE 1.3.5. We also have a beta release of our experimental 2.0 release for testing and evaluation. All the built artifacts are available in a Maven2 repository.

Note: when downloading from a mirror please check the md5sum and verify the OpenPGP compatible signature from the main Apache site. Links are provided above (next to the release download link). This KEYS file contains the public keys used for signing releases. It is recommended that (when possible) a web of trust is used to confirm the identity of these keys. For more information, please see the Apache Release FAQ.

1.3.5

Apache ODE 1.3.5 includes about 30 bug fixes and performance improvements. The performance improvements affect XPath 2.0 processing in <assign> activities or transition conditions and makes it up to 10 times faster than ODE 1.3.4. See the changelog for a complete list. No migration is necessary from 1.3.4.

1.3.4

Apache ODE 1.3.4 includes about 100 bug fixes and improvements (among others: instance replaying, process deployments via OSGi bundles and spring configurable process properties. See the changelog for a complete list. Migration is necessary from 1.3.2/1.3.3, please check the upgrade page.

1.3.3

Apache ODE 1.3.3 is a security release for the process deployment web service, which was sensible to deployment messages with forged names. It also includes a few bug fixes and improvements. See the changelog for an exhaustive list. There are no migration necessary from 1.3.2, for other versions check the upgrade page if applicable.

2.0-beta2

The second beta of our experimental 2.0 branch. The next generation of the ODE engine adds reliability capabilities, improves on performance and open the way to better RESTful support. However, we do not plan any further releases of this branch. Instead, we will focus on the main dev branch and will merge features from the experimental branch back to the 1.x release train.

Archived Releases

1.3.2

Apache ODE 1.3.2 includes many features and improvements, among others: XQuery 1.0 in BPEL queries and expressions, Publish/Subscribe across process instances, WS-BPEL processes provided over JMS, WS-Security support, Process data clean up, better performance and memory management. As well as many bug fixes. See the changelog for an exhaustive list. Check the upgrade page if applicable.

1.2

Apache ODE 1.2 packs new features as well as many small fixes and improvements. The features highlight is external variables, support for the WSDL HTTP binding (allowing the invocation of REST style services) and advanced endpoint configurations. See the changelog for the complete list of modifications and the upgrade page if applicable.

1.1.1

Apache ODE 1.1.1 is mostly an incremental release providing small improvements, bug fixes and more performance. See the release notes and the Jira changelog.

1.1

Apache ODE 1.1 is our first fully official release (outside of the Apache incubator). It adds a few more features, performance and usage improvements and many bug fixes. See the release notes for more details about its content. The Jira changelog is also available.

1.0-incubating

This is the very first release of Apache ODE, done inside the incubator. For more information about its content, see the corresponding release notes.

All the built artifacts are available as a Maven2 repository.The project PGP signatures can also be checked.

Nightly builds

There are nightly builds avaiable at http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/view/ODE.

Building from sources

To build from the sources please see our Building ODE page.