Friday, July 22, 2016

WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (WSO2 MSF4J) 2.0.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (WSO2 MSF4J) 2.0.0. The distribution, source and tag location for this release is available here.
WSO2 MSF4J is a lightweight, high performance microservices runtime. It also provides a very simple programming model for developing Java based microservices.
This release of the WSO2 MSF4J includes the following key features. For further details please refer to the Product Page.

What’s New in This Release

  • Spring support MSF4J now supports Spring annotations and runtime
  • Swagger support 
    Generate Swagger definitions for your microservices and annotate services using Swagger annotations
  • Exception mapper supportAllows mapping of Java exceptions to custom HTTP responses
  • Streaming output support 
    Provides full control over streaming to the service developer
  • FormParam and FormDataParam annotation support 
    Provides support to handle x-form-application-urlencoded and multipart/form-data requests with form submission
  • FormParamIterator support
    Provides full control to the developer over form field processing
  • Circuit breaker supportNygard’s circuit breaker pattern is supported via Netflix Hystrix
  • Improved thread model and transport architecture
    Netty and execution thread pools can now be customized according to the required service characteristics
In addition to the above features, MSF4J supports analysis with visualization with WSO2 Data Analytics Server (DAS), and includes a set of comprehensive samples which demonstrate how to use MSF4J features & build Microservices Architecture (MSA) based solutions. This release also includes several bug fixes to the previous version of MSF4J. To find out more, visit the MSF4J product page.
How you can contribute
We welcome contributors: head over to wso2.com/community to find out more. If you have any suggestions or are interested in WSO2 MSF4J 2.0.0 discussions, please join the dev@wso2.org or architecture@wso2.org mailing lists.
Reporting Issues
Please report issues and documentation errors regarding WSO2 MSF4J 2.0.0 through the public issue tracking system

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Face Recognition in Video with JavaCV

Few weeks ago some random guy asked me whether I can help him to do face recognition in a video. At that time I didn’t had much free time so couldn’t look much into that. In this weekend suddenly I recall that and wanted to check on that.
There can be lot of improvements to be done for this. But for someone who just wanna give a shot here is the code