So it was due time for another release and we wanted it to be feature packed so here goes the review of the latest and greatest of Mobicents Sip Servlets that you can download here
First, Concurrency Control. It defines here how a sip servlets application can be accessed concurrently and what would its expected behavior in this case. Although the JSR 289 Expert Group couldn't agree on a concurrency control mechanism for JSR 289 and that feature has been postponed to the next version of the spec, we believe this feature can greatly simplify the life of the Sip Servlets developers. Also in getting more experience on that front and feedback from the community we would like to start to draft a proposal for inclusion in the next revision of the specification.
So Mobicents Sip Servlets supports not one but three concurrency control modes :
- None - is the one defined (or not defined...) by the specification and the developer is reponsible for synchronizing access to shared resources such as SipSession or SipApplicationSession attributes or objects held by those sessions.
- SipSession : This mode guarantees that two or more messages from the same SipSession will never be processed simultaneously. They will be serialized on the SipSession meaning that they will be processed sequentially by the sip servlet in the order of their arrival so you can access SipSession attributes in a safe way.
- SipApplicationSession : This mode guarantees that two or more messages from the same SipApplicationSession will never be processed simultaneously so you can access SipApplicationSession attributes and the SipSession attributes in a safe way.
Congestion Control : All the messages that arrives in the Mobicents Sip Servlets container will go, after some initial processing, in a queue to wait for, depending on the chosen concurrency control mode, a free thread or the lock on the session to be released. If this queue gets full the container will start rejecting any new SIP requests (except ACK) with SIP error code 503 until the server catches up. Note that only SIP requests will be rejected, the SIP responses that arrive at a full queue will be stored and processed sooner or later. In the future we will be adding more congestion control mechanisms like memory threshold, CPU threshold, choose between sending 503 or just dropping any new message coming in depending on the load threshold... so stay tuned !
Enterprise Monitoring and Management Console through Seamless integration into JOPR and Embedded JOPR (JBoss Administration console), the JBoss Enterprise management solution : I just blogged about it 3 days ago so for more details see my blog post.
Mid Call Failover Support : We completed our HA capabilities for pure SIP applications so you can now failover to any node in the cluster in the middle of a call for all kind of pure SIP Applications (Proxy, B2BUA, UAC, UAS) ! We will now be working on failover for converged applications and add performance and stability automated test based on smartfrog so that it becomes final.
We also have been working on two great new features and wish some community feedback on them so we first introduce them as Technlogy Preview into this 0.7 release :
JBoss Seam framework is now able to enhance your sip servlets application : As Vladimir is currently working on a cool PBX application, he was feeling that this was not enough :-) so he started to dig and hack on how the JBoss Seam framework could be utilized to simplify the Sip Servlets application development and has been very successful, See his blog post about it and the public discussion. As we were discussing together the implications of this, we decided to start a subproject dedicated to it to rock the sip servlets world and continue our unification task (between Sip Servlets and Http or Sip Servlets and JSLEE) the same way Seam has been rocking the http servlets world. So check it out and see how it can improve your Time to Market and development experience all together and don't forget to give us your feedback and what you would like to see improved or implemented.
Diameter support : For users of Mobicents Sip Servlets, we wanted them to be able to charge calls that are going through their applications so Alexandre Mendonça who is leading the Diameter project for the Mobicents platform, has tremendously helped us in getting us Diameter support and hacked a Sip Servlets Diameter Event Charging application based on the Location Service example that performs call charging at a fixed-rate (event charging), so check it out and give us your feedback. Alex is now planning on getting more of the Diameter protocol implemented and as he go, he will hack Sip Servlets applications that showcase the different possible call flows to help you do Authentication, Authorization and Accounting on top of Mobicents Sip Servlets.
Also we got 2 new shiny examples, the Diameter Event Charging one that we just discussed and the Conference Media Server application built on GWT with server-push updates to provide desktop-like experience for the user interface. This application is in response to the high demand of the community for Media Conferencing on top Mobicents Sip Servlets and this example will be later integrated into the PBX application that Vlad is builing.
Also with all those new features, we moved to the latest version of JBoss AS 4.2.3.GA and also comes the usual round of bug fixes and enhancements comprised of an updated Management Console, more SIP Extensions (PRACK, OPTIONS, INFO), and more.
Check out our roadmap to see what's coming next !
Feel free to give us your feedback on the Mobicents Google Group
Thanks for using Mobicents Sip Servlets !
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