In order to identify your account, you have to provide the domain name of your organization. I will demonstrate how to create an account using the “ws.dimuthu.org” as my domain name.

1. First go to http://governance.cloud.wso2.com from a web browser and click the ‘Register’ button. You will be asked to enter the domain name as the first step.

Enter the domain

After that, you have the option of validating the ownership of the domain right at the registration process, or you can skip the validation and continue to the next step in which case your domain will be appended ‘-trial’ suffix. You can validate the ownership of the domain later at any stage.

Here I want to validate the domain right now, so I click ‘Take me to the domain ownership confirmation page straight-away’ and click the ‘Submit’ button.

2. This will redirect you to the domain ownership validation page. You can validate the ownership of your domain in one of two ways.

Method i). Just create a text file named ‘wso2gaas.txt’ in the web root of your domain and enter the given text. This is the most simplest method of two.

Validate domain name using Textfile

Method ii). You can put a DNS entry according to the given instructions. This is a little tedious approch to validate the domain. In fact it may take a while to propagate the new DNS information, so you may have to wait hours without refreshing the page until you finally validate the domain ownership.

Click the continue button after the domain validation done. Then you will be redirected to a page requesting more information.

3. Tenant Registration Page

Tenant Registration

4) After this step, you will be notified to check for your email which will contain a mail with a link to proceed with the registration. There you will be able to select a theme for your organization and finalize creating your account. Login to the admin account for your tenant with the credential you provided a the time of the registration.

The domain ownership validation was introduced to WSO2 Governance as a Service account registration only now. So for organizations who have already have account will have a message similar to this when they are trying to login to their account.

Info box at login

So the account I have registered using the domain name ‘example.com’ has been renamed to ‘example.com-trial’. As the instruction of the message says you can go to the account management page after the login and validate the domain ownership.

Account Management Page

WSO2 Cloud Platform consists of various products, including

• WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines: All WSO2 Java products are now available as
  • Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Visit the ‘Getting Started’ tutorial from Getting Started with WSO2 Cloud Virtual Machines for Amazon EC2
  • VMWare/VMWare VSX and KVM images. Visit the tutorial, Getting Started with WSO2 VMWare Images.
• WSO2 Cloud Connectors:
  • WSO2 Cloud Service Gateway – A manage and secured gateway between the services in your Enterprise and the cloud. Visit Introducing WSO2 Cloud Services Gateway for a comprehensive tutorial.
  • WSO2 Service Accelerator – Accelerate the processing of WS-Security and WS-Reliable Messaging using WSO2 Web Service Framework for C++.
• WSO2 Cloud Services: Providing WSO2 Products as Services following the Software as a Service (SaaS) Model.
  • WSO2 Governance as a Service: Hosted instance of WSO2 Governance Registry with multi-tenant support. You can try out the software from https://governance.cloud.wso2.com. Visit Getting Started With WSO2 Governance as a Service and FAQ for more information.

• WSO2 Governance Registry 3.0.1
• WSO2 ESB 2.1.1
• WOS2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) 3.1.1
• WSO2 Identity Server (IS) 2.0.1
• WSO2 Mashup Server 2.0.0

Although the version numbers say this is minor patch release (Other than the Mashup Server which is shipping as a major release), in fact there are new features and improvements. Some basic new features shares among all of these products are

1. Improved registry level transaction Support.
2. Improved Support for deploying on top of Application Servers other than tomcat like WebSphere, WebLogic, and
   JBoss.
3. Support for Eclipse P2 based provisioning. (Yes, you can add/remove features from these WSO2 products , see https://wso2.org/wiki/display/carbon/p2-based-provisioning-support for more details)
4. Improved Remote Registry model

You can download the tools and the related documentation from http://wso2.org/downloads/tools/eclipse.

Here are the key features of the set of IDE tools,

• Create Web services
• Create web service client
• Convert WSDL 1.1 to 2.0
• Module and service validators
• Creating wsdl from a java class
• Create Axis2 archives
• Hot update a Web service
• Debug Web services
• Test Web services
• Conversion of WSDL 1.1 to 2.0 can now be done vice versa as well.
• Creating Bpel archives for deploy
• Start WSAS 3.0.x inside Eclipse
• Run multiple instances of WSAS inside eclipse

With this release C++ developers will be able to write web services and web service clients to inter-op with .NET/Java/PHP or any other platform built-on web service standards. The release is shiped with a code generation tool that will be used to generate the code for skeletons and stubs from a WSDL, so developers only need to concentrate on their business logic as the generated code will take care of building or parsing xmls and running them on top of the framework.
Here are the key features of the new release.

1. Support core web service standards like SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1, WSDL 2.0, REST
2. Support for web services QoS specifications.
   • WS-Addressing
   • WS-Security
   • WS-Policy
   • WS-Security-Policy
   • WS-Reliable-Messaging
3. Support binary attachment with MTOM and SWA (With the Support for large binaries)
4. Code generation tool.
5. Proven interoperability with .NET.

As a side note, you will be able to participate to a free summer school training session on the WSF/CPP conducted by Nandika Jayawardane who is the project lead of both WSF/CPP and WSF/PHP on 30th July. You can register to it (for free) from here.

• WSAS (Web Service Application Server) – Provide and consume web services, data services with full WS-*, REST support, GUI tools, Integration with Eclipse, etc..
• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) – Message routing, mediation, transformation, logging, task scheduling, load balancing, failover routing, event brokering, etc. with number of transports support
• Governance Registry – Govern you SOA platform, introducing number of new features including Dashboard with Gadgets, lifecycle management with checklists, eventing and notifications, remote/symbolic links, checkin/checkout functionality and new meta data management UI.

You will be able to get the advantage of the carbon platform by extending the functionality of any of these products, just by mixing components from other products (Just like running an ESB within WSAS).

Download, Play around with them and Enjoy:)!!!

1. Unified QoS configurations – Allows you to add/drop modules for security, reliability, etc of your services + edit their policies in a unified view.
2. Unified Registry Storage – Provides a unified view over the governance of the SOA platform.
3. Unified Trackers – Availability of logs, statistics, graphs and  message tracers making it easy to debug and test your system.
4. Unified User Experience – Well designed unified User interfaces allowing admins/users to get familiar with each of the components very quickly and easily.
5. Unified Extensibility – The underline OSGI environment and the design of the carbon platform itself make it possible to add new OSGI bundles as extensions to fit equally across all the products.

WSO2 Mashup Server enables you to develop your enterprise mashups very easily. You will write your code for the mashups in javascript with the full help of integrated javascript objects to consume Web services or Atom feeds, manage sessions, scrape web pages and manipulate storage. Once your put your .js file in to the mashup server repository, your services automatically will have the WSDLs, ‘Try It’ functionality and SOAP, REST interfaces.

If you are new to Mashup Server or to develop Mashups, just have a look at the series of screenshots released by WSO2 sometime ago. That will no doubt take you from zero knowledge to a comfortable state to write full-fledged mashups.

1. WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) – WSO2 WSAS is an enterprise ready web services engine based on Apache Axis2. It is incorporated with many features including,
   • Data services support – Expose you enterprise data as a services in a jiffy
   • WSAS IDE – Eclipse IDE integration
   • Clustering support for High Availability & High Scalability
   • Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation and XKMS
   • EJB service provider support – Expose your EJBs as services
   • Axis1 backward compatibility – Deploy Axis1 services on WSAS & Engage advanced WS-* protocols in front of legacy services
   • JMX & Web interface based monitoring and management
   • WS-* & REST support
   • GUI, command line & IDE based tools for Web service development
2. WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)- WSO2 ESB is a lightweight and easy-to-use Open Source Enterprise Service Bus based on Apache Synapse. Here is the listing of some of key features,
   • Proxy services – facilitating transport, interface (WSDL/Schema/Policy), message format (SOAP 1.1/1.2, POX/REST, Text, Binary), QoS (WS-Addressing/WS-Security/WS-RM) and optimization switching (MTOM/SwA).
   • Non-blocking HTTP/S transports based on Apache HttpCore for ultrafast execution and support for thousands of connections at high concurreny with constant memory usage.
   • Built in Registry/Repository, facilitating dynamic updating and reloading of the configuration and associated resources (e.g. XSLTs, XSD, JS, ..)
   • Easily extended via custom Java class (mediator and command)/Spring mediators, or BSF Scripting languages (Javascript, Ruby, Groovy, etc.)
   • Built in support for scheduling tasks using the Quartz scheduler.
   • Load-balancing (with or without sticky sessions) /Fail-over, and clustered Throttling and Caching support
   • WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, Caching and Throttling configurable via (message/operation/service level) WS-Policies
   • Lightweight, XML and Web services centric messaging model
   • Support for industrial standards (Hessian binary web service protocol/Financial information exchange protocol)
   • Enhanced support for the VFS/JMS/Mail transports
   • Support for message splitting and aggregation using the EIP
   • Database lookup and store support with DBMediators with reusable database connection pools
   • JMX monitoring support
3. WSO2 Registry – WSO2 Registry is a user-friendly, but comprehensive enterprise resource / metadata management solution. It is capable of
   • Storing and managing arbitrary resources and collections
   • Tagging, commenting and rating
   • Managing users and roles
   • Authentication and authorization on all resources and actions
   • Resource / collection versioning and rollback
   • Advanced search capabilities – tags, users, etc.
   • Built in media type support for common types (WSDL, XSD)
   • Dependency management – maintain relationships between dependent resources
   • Pluggable media type handlers for handling custom media types
   • Support for processing custom URL patterns via pluggable URL handlers
   • Support for custom query languages via pluggable query processors
   • Activity log and filtering support for the activity logs
   • Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) support for reading/writing the data store remotely
   • Subscribe to directories, comments, tags, etc. with any standard feed reader (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc)
   • Java client for remote access via APP
   • Embedded and WAR deployments
   • Web based user interface with Web 2.0 look and feel
4. WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) – WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) is an easy-to-use open source business process server that executes business processes written using the WS-BPEL standard and it’s powered by Apache ODE (Orchestration Director Engine). It provides you the following features,
   • Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard.
   • Managing BPEL packages, processes and process instances.
   • Data Sources support.
   • External Database support for BPEL engine.
   • WS-Security support for business processes.
   • WS-RM support for business processes.
   • Caching support for business processes.
   • Throttling support for business processes.
   • Transport management.
   • Internationalized web based management console.
   • System monitoring.
   • Try-it for business processes.
   • SOAP Message Tracing.
   • Web Services tooling support such as WSDL2Java, Java2WSDL and WSDL Converter.
   • Customizable server – You can customize the BPS to fit into your exact requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new optional features.

All these products are pre-bundled components built on top of WSO2 Carbon framework which is based on the OSGI technology. In fact you can bundle the components to suite your enterprise architecture as all the major features have been developed as pluggable Carbon components.