1. WSO2’s Unified Theory of
Middleware
April 2010
Asanka Abeysinghe,
Architect, WSO2 Inc.

2. Asanka Abeysinghe – Lead Solutions Architect
 10+ years industry experience working on projects ranging from
desktop, web applications through to high scalable distributed
systems and service-oriented architectures.
 Areas of specialization include application architecture and
development using Java technologies, C/C++ on Linux and
Windows platforms.
 Committer of the Apache Software Foundation.
 Head of WSO2's Solutions Architect Team.

3. WSO2
 Founded in 2005 by acknowledged leaders in XML, Web
Services Technologies & Standards and Open Source
 Producing entire middleware platform 100% open source under
Apache license
 Business model is to sell comprehensive support & maintenance
for our products
 Venture funded by Intel Capital
 Global corporation with offices in USA, UK & Sri Lanka
 80+ employees and growing

4. Enterprise Architecture Evolution

5. SOA – Enterprise Expectations
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6. Middleware
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7. Middleware Platforms : Market
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8. WSO2 Evolution Strategy – Reinvent Middleware!
Design Objectives for WSO2 Middleware:
 Self-consistent and lean
 Internal interoperability
 External interoperability
 Infinitely flexible and agile for rapid solution architecture
adoption
 Open standards and Open Source
 A complete middleware platform from data to screen

9. OSGi – Dynamic Module System for Java
 Defines a way to create true modules and a way for those
modules to interact at runtime
 Modules (Bundles) in OSGi can be installed, updated and
uninstalled without restarting the JVM
 WSO2 Carbon is the first and only OSGi-based
comprehensive middleware platform
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10. The Solution: WSO2 Carbon

11. The Solution: WSO2 Carbon

12. The Solution: WSO2 Carbon

13. What is WSO2 Carbon?
• A Modular Platform for Building Middleware
– Consistent SOA architecture
– Identity and security management
– Infrastructure management: scaling, monitoring, load-balancing
– Metadata management: registry and repository
– p2 deployment and provisioning technology
• A Modular Platform for Building Enterprise Applications
– ESB, Data Services, Governance, Service Hosting
– Federated Identity management
– Web application hosting (Tomcat) and Portal (Gadgets)
– A clear model for extension and deployment
• A Multi-tenant Cloud Platform
– Complete multi-tenant platform for managing applications across a
public or private cloud deployment
– “Cloud Native” auto-scaling

14. Don’t Take Our Word for It!
"The value of the WSO2 Carbon platform, is that it
taps into the growing developer frustration with
bloatware. A modular framework allows my team to
configure the runtime with only the components I want
for the application I'm building. If I need a hammer, I
configure a hammer; if I need a sledgehammer, I
configure a sledgehammer.”
- Jeffrey S. Hammond, Senior Analyst, Forrester

15. Self-Consistent & Lean

16. Interoperable

17. Flexible & Agile
Supports Enterprise SOA Adoption – Organically and Effectively
Use the Right Technology in the Right Place
e.g. Mediation at the Edges

18. WSO2 SOA Platform
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19. WSO2 Middleware Products
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20.  WSO2 Web Services Application Server
 A secure, reliable and transactional runtime for creating, consuming and
deploying JVM based Web services
 Powered by Apache Axis2/Java
 Alternative to traditional JEE Application Server
 Features
 Comprehensive, interoperable WS-* & REST support
 Policy guided configuration
 Clustering and high availability
 Registry integration for centralized management
 Lightweight graphical administration / monitoring console
 Eclipse plugins for easy development
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22.  WSO2 Web Services Framework
 Tool for creating and consuming services in all major languages,
including Java, Jython, Javascript, JRuby, Spring, C, C++, PHP, Perl, &
Ruby
 Powered by Apache Axis2/Java and Axis2/C
 Features
 Comprehensive WS-* & REST support
 Policy guided configuration
 Designed for embedding / integration
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24.  WSO2 Web Services Framework for C++
 Standards compliant, enterprise grade C++ library for providing and
consuming Web services in C++
 Extends WSO2 Web Services Framework for C which is based on
Apache Axis2/C
 Based on Apache Rampart/C, Apache Sandesha2/C and Apache
Savan/C
 Features
 Comprehensive WS-* & REST support
 Policy guided configuration
 Designed for embedding / integration
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25.  WSO2 Data Services
 Tool for exposing data as services and/or Web resources
 Empower DBAs to create services for managed data consumption
 Expose relational databases, CSV files, XLS files or LDAP data
 Features
 Declarative language for publishing data as services and/or resources
 Wizard UI for authoring
 Support for full WS-* security, reliability and more
 Caching, throttling, high availability
 High performance streaming for large data sets
 Support for Oracle RefCursors
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27.  WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
 Enables loosely coupled service interactions
 Manage, route and transform messages and services
 Highly performant, lightweight and extensible
 Powered by Apache Synapse
 Features
 Configured via declarative XML language or graphical console
 Highly scalable execution with completely non-blocking behavior
 Easily extended in Java or scripting languages
 Support for timed/periodic job execution
 Support for wide range of protocols and formats including HTTP, JMS,
SMTP, FIX, AMQP, EDI and more
 Clustering and high availability
 Registry integration for centralized management
 Lightweight graphical administration / monitoring console
 Message relay for high performance message routing
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29.  WSO2 Mashup Server
 Tool for creating services by quickly mashing up existing services,
resources and data
 Mashups implemented in Javascript
 Features
 Compose services, feeds, Web pages and more using pure Javascript
logic
 Complete data binding to/from Javascript to XML Schema
 Automatic creation of WSDL
 Registry integration for centralized management
 Lightweight graphical administration / monitoring console
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31.  WSO2 Business Process Server
 Tool for deploying, executing and managing business processes
 A structured model for Business Process Management based on Open
Standards
 Integrated with Eclipse BPEL tooling to provide a graphical process
management approach
 Powered by Apache ODE
 Features
 Complete support for WS-BPEL 2.0, BPEL4WS 1.1
 Complete support for WS-* and REST
 Lightweight graphical administration / monitoring console for managing
processes and process instances
 Full persistent support for long-running processes
 Support for Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL and other major databases
 Instance recovery support
 WS-Security support for calling and exposing services
 Clusterable
 BPEL process viewer built in
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33.  WSO2 Governance Registry
 Lightweight registry and repository for service metadata and all SOA
resources
 Governance framework for building customer-specific governance
features
 Features
 Enterprise repository for all resources with full versioning and rollback
 Supports RESTful AtomPub, WS and Java interfaces
 Hierarchical authentication and authorization support
 Highly effective governance capabilities including:
 Dependency management, Lifecycles and SOA Dashboard
 Notification model to inform users or systems of changes
 Highly extensible and customizable
 Social features including tagging and rating of all resources
 Highly integrated with WSO2 ESB, BPS, and other tools
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Can be integrated into 3rd party tools
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35.  WSO2 Identity Server
 An open source Identity and Entitlement management server
 A single open standards approach to managing identity and
authorization
 Removes the requirement for individual servers to store
passwords or have direct access to LDAP
 Features
 Support for user centric identity management with Information Cards
and OpenID
 Fine grained authorization with XACML
 Single sign-on support with SAML 2.0
 Claim based Security Token Service
 Extension points for claim management
 Pluggable user store support – including ActiveDirectory, LDAP or
custom
 Supports multi-factor authentication for enhanced security
 OAuth support will be added Q1 2010
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37.  WSO2 Gadget Server
 An Enterprise Portal built for SOA and Web scenarios
 Based on the Google Gadget specification
 Hundreds of available gadgets (portlets)
 Simple programming model based on HTML, JavaScript and CSS
 Powered by Apache Shindig
 Features
 Enterprise Gadget Repository
 OpenID, InfoCard login support
 Fits with existing LDAP, ActiveDirectory servers as well as WSO2
Identity Server
 Clusterable, scalable, manageable
 Fully personalized with each user having a customizable set of tabs,
each with gadgets
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39.  WSO2 Business Activity Monitor
 Monitor both technical SOA and business SOA
 Visualization – a picture is worth a thousand words!
 Analytics – identify patterns and trends
 Extensible to support other systems by leveraging event-driven model
 KPI monitoring – act when deviating from normal levels
 Features
 Five main dashboards providing data and analytics
 Highly extensible using Gadget model
 Monitor Anything - can be integrated with third-party systems using
published standard APIs
 Reports in PDF and Excel formats
 WSO2 Carbon base gives a secure, clusterable, manageable
foundation
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41. Carbon : Tooling
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42. Carbon-3.0.0 “Iridium”
 Released Schedule
 Alpha on QA
 Beta – Apr -2010
 GA - Apr-2010
 New Features
 Carbon: P2 based provisioning (install, list, uninstall, patch
management)
 Carbon: Component management UI
 Carbon: Application Concept
 Carbon: Discovery
 Carbon: Scaling
 ESB: Message Relay (part of 2.1.3)
 ESB: Priority Queue
 BPS: Human tasks
 G-Reg: Registry separation and JDBC Registry
 G-Reg: New tree view for the resource browser
Next major release will be Sep/Oct-2010 time frame (GA)
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43. New Products coming in 2010
 WSO2 Event Server
 Pub-sub event broker
 Complex Event Processing
 WSO2 Business Rules Server
 Rule services
 Rules as agents
 WSO2 Repository
 Enterprise content repository
 WSO2 Carbon Studio
 Tooling for Carbon framework
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44. WSO2 Cloud Services
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45. Launched in November 2009
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46. SOA & Cloud Computing
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47. WSO2 Cloud Computing
 Cloud Virtual Machines
 VMs of all products for EC2, VMWare, KVM
 Cloud Connectors
 Products to bridge cloud VMs to legacy enterprise
 Cloud Services
 Hosted offerings of all WSO2 products as SaaS and PaaS
 Cloud Middleware
 Platform for building cloud applications, including a private cloud
solution
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48.  Virtual machines of all WSO2 products
 Supporting both public and private clouds
 Amazon EC2
 VMWare ESX
 KVM
 Free to use/download
 Buy support as with products
 Advantages
 Easy of deployment
 Zero configuration
 Pay-as-you-go
 Auto scaling as load increases
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49.  Running applications and middleware in the cloud does not
mean the enterprise goes away!
 “Calling home”
 Products that help bridge between cloud applications and
enterprise middleware
 Cloud Services Gateway
 Services Accelerator
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50. WSO2 Cloud Services Gateway
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51. Decouple QOS from backend services and plugs them to
a layer that can process messages under high throughput.
Powered by
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52.  Hosted, multi-tenant versions of all WSO2 products
 Free to use for starter usage and then pay-per-use
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53.  Data management
 Provided by Governance Registry
 Identity / security management
 Provided by Identity Server
 Service hosting, mediation and management
 Provided by core Carbon framework
 User interfaces & portals
 Provided by Gadget server
 Billing and metering
 Management and monitoring
 Provided by BAM
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54. WSO2 Private Cloud Solution
 WSO2 Ozone
 Self-service portal for creating virtual machines on a hardware cluster
 Uses Xen
 Powered by WSO2 Gadget Server, WSO2 Identity Server
 Pre-installed with images of all WSO2 products
 Pre-installed images of standard OS/AppServer/Database
combinations
 Recommended initially for dev/test environments
 Great way to support QA automation environments
 Advantages
 Major cost savings compared to using Amazon EC2 type public clouds
 Improve utilization of already available hardware resources
 Turn-key solution from WSO2
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55. Summary of WSO2 cloud offerings
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56. Middleware Platform Extends

57. WSO2 in Action
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58. Customers
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59. Solutions : ESB with Service Hosting
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60. Solutions : Extended Cluster
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61. Solutions: Enterprise Portal
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62. Solutions : External Services Gateway
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63. Engagement Model
 Quick Start
 Combination of consulting, training and POC development in one week by
WSO2 on-site team working hand-in-hand with your team
 Development Support
 On-going support for your engineering teams
 Production Support
 Full 24x7x365 enterprise support
 Regular service packs and updates to keep your system secure and robust

64. Summary : True Platform Performance
Solo, Duet, Quartet, Quintet or the full Orchestra:
WSO2 Middleware Products are Class-leading in any
Combination!

65. Summary: Drivers Start Your Engines!

66. Summary: WSO2's Unified Theory of Middleware
Best built-for-purpose enterprise middleware platform for
SOA
Only vendor offering a complete platform designed from the ground up!

67. More Info
 Corporate website: http://wso2.com
 Developer portal: http://wso2.org
 Business development team: bizdev@wso2.com
 asankaa@wso2.com
 http://blog.asanka.org/
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