WSO2 lean . enterprise . middleware

WSO2 is an innovative Open Source technology company devoted to building Web services middleware for your SOA. WSO2 has reinvented enterprise middleware from the ground up.

WSO2 SOA Enablement Server

In addition to a fully open source WSO2 SOA platform, WSO2 also provides licensing and support for the WSO2 SOA Enablement Server, available in both Java and C++ versions. Acquired from HP in early 2009, the WSO2 SOA Enablement Server products may be more familiar to end users by their previous names, including HP SOA Enablement Server for Java, HP SOA Enablement Server for C++, Systinet Server for Java (SSJ), or Systinet Server for C++ (SSC).

Customers who have been using the HP SOA Enablement Server (or SSJ/SSC) are able to easily transition their licensing and support needs directly to WSO2, without having to migrate code or disrupt their deployments in any way. Simply contact WSO2 near the end of your maintenance contract term.

WSO2 is uniquely positioned to provide superior technical support to SOA Enablement Server customers due to a large team of seasoned SOA engineers, many of whom are contributors to Apache Axis2/Java and Apache Axis2/C. In addition, WSO2 is committed to keeping current with major platform and operating system releases, as well as working with customers to address specific feature requests.

Open Source Middleware

WSO2 offers the only built-for-purpose middleware stack. Throughout the product line WSO2 offers compelling value with a lean, high performance approach, unparalleled extensibility and componentization, user-praised ease-of-use, and rapid customer-driven product evolution. Combined with a straightforward business model based on no-gimmicks open source licensing and superior support and services, WSO2’s offering is able to provide solutions to a wide variety of enterprise problems.

WSO2 Carbon

Other than the WSO2 Web Services Framework product line, WSO2 products are based on WSO2 Carbon, an OSGi-based component framework allowing the products to leverage shared components. This sharing ensures a consistent set of features between products and a consistent user experience (e.g. the security management interface for each product isn’t merely similar – it reuses the identical component). This framework not only enhances WSO2’s productivity developing and delivering new products, but also allows advanced customers to package a customized set of features into customized middleware runtimes. Although Carbon itself is not a “product”, customized Carbon-based runtimes, developed in-house by Intermountain Healthcare or with assistance from WSO2 Professional Services, provide ultimate flexibility in applying WSO2 technologies to challenging middleware tasks.

WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

The WSO2 ESB offers a new lean approach to creating an SOA by adding monitoring, management and virtualization to your existing service interactions. Its innovative design leads it to be one of the highest performance, lowest footprint, and widest interoperability integration systems available. The graphical pipeline editor and the XML-based configuration language support complex flows without dropping down to a full programming language for common tasks.

WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS)

A leaner, simpler, more interoperable platform for hosting Java-based services than J2EE, the WSO2 Web Services Application Server simplifies the development, deployment, and management of Web services. With features supporting clustering and high availability, Eclipse IDE integration, full support for key WS-* and REST standards, WSAS is becoming the platform of choice for developers and SOA architects.

WSO2 Data Services Server (DS)

Need to expose relational data or other data sources as secure, reliable, metadata-driven Web Services? The WSO2 Data Services Server’s graphical wizard or Eclipse plug-in wizard allow you to quickly map queries to Web Services without time-consuming programming. Data Services are the fastest way to bring SOA design principles and governance to your data layer.

WSO2 Governance Registry

Keeping control of your SOA starts with an easy to use metadata repository, complete with support for full versioning, lifecycle management, a rich model for users/roles/permissions, and social features such as tagging, rating, and comments. Add to that integration with other WSO2 products to collect metadata about services, centralize policy metadata, and manage dependencies. The WSO2 Governance Registry connects SOA infrastructure with the people, processes, and policies essential to an effective SOA.

WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS)

The Business Process Server executes business processes described using the WS-BPEL standard for orchestrating Web Service interactions. Features for managing, securing, and defining business process with graphical console are included.

WSO2 Identity Server (IS)

The WSO2 Identity Server supports identity and entitlement management. It supports state-of-the art mechanisms such as OpenID and Information Cards for authentication as well as XACML for fine-grained authorization. Integrates easily into existing user stores such as LDAP or Active Directory. Supports multi-factor authentication and much more.

WSO2 Mashup Server (MS)

The WSO2 Mashup Server supports the composition of Web Services, feeds, scraped Web pages, files and other information sources into new Web Services. A Web 2.0-style compliment to the WSO2 Business Process Server, the Mashup Server is oriented towards Web developers (Javascript + HTML/XML skills) and enables the rapid development and sharing of new services. It includes features for connecting Web Services to humans through Web pages, gadgets, feeds, instant messages and email, and so forth.

WSO2 Gadget Server (GS)

The WSO2 Gadget Server provides a customized end-user portal or dashboard for monitoring and managing conditions within an SOA, an enterprise, or elsewhere. Each provisioned user receives a customizable portal containing Google Gadgets which can be developed and deployed in a simple, decentralized fashion. WSO2 products such as the WSO2 Mashup Server provide a simple mechanism for collecting services and deploying the results as enterprise gadgets for the user. Many third-party Google Gadgets are available and can be added to a users personalized dashboard.

WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (BAM)

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor collects streams of event information from agents that can be added to WSO2 Carbon based products, analyzes them, and makes this critical information available as a set of gadgets through the WSO2 Gadget Server. Analysis and new gadgets representing the vital conditions of your business that are processed within your SOA can be easily developed and added to create the ultimate Executive Dashboard.

WSO2 Web Services Framework (WSF)

Based on Axis2/C and Axis2/Java, the Web Services Framework product family supports the exposure and consumption of Web Services in a variety of programming environments:
• WSF/C
• WSF/C++
• WSF/PHP
• WSF/Perl
• WSF/Python
• WSF/Ruby
• WSF/Spring
• WSF/Jython

WSF/C and WSF/C++ in particular feature dramatically greater performance than that possible in a JVM environment, as well as provide a compelling solution for integrating legacy code through the SOA. The high throughput and stable footprint, along with a solid feature set and interoperability surface, are broader than any other C-language based Web Service platform. This code is used in demanding situations from mainframes to hardware appliances.

WSO2 Adapters

WSO2 also produces adapters to serve the unique protocol needs of vertical industries. The current set of adapters (normally commanding a premium price in conjunction with a WSO2 product runtime) includes:
• HL7 (healthcare)
• FIX (financial)

Upcoming Releases

WSO2 is aggressively increasing the capabilities of the product line. Here are a few of the products WSO2 is working on now:
• WSO2 Business Rules Server
• WSO2 Event Server

Any WSO2 Carbon-based products, and any new Web Services Frameworks, released in the next three years will be included in unlimited Enterprise Production Support.