WSO2 announced that the SOA stack that they provided as downloadable packages are now available in the cloud as hosted instances with the code name WSO2 Stratos. You can try them out for free from https://cloud.wso2.com. You can register your organization for an account in the WSO2 Stratos by clicking the ‘Register’ button in the home page. You can find a detail guide on ‘How to register for WSO2 Stratos’ from Charitha’s blog, http://charithaka.blogspot.com/2010/06/wso2-stratos-introducing-wso2.html.
At the registration, you will be asked to provide a username and password for the admin account. Use this credential to login as admin for the Stratos services and surf through the products. Here is a brief introduction on all the products currently available.
- Stratos Governance: Store and govern your services, wsdls, schemas, policies and other SOA artifacts
- Stratos Identity: Manage user bases, authentication mechanisms, permissions and all the identity aspects of your enterprise.
- Stratos Application Server: Host your web apps, web services and manage their QoS aspects like security, reliability.
- Stratos Gadgets Server: Write and host gadgets complaint with Google gadget standards.
- Stratos Mashup Server: Write mashup using scripting languages like javascript.
- Stratos Business Activity Monitor: Monitor activities of your services.
- Stratos Enterprise Service Bus: Coming soon with message routing, intermediate message transformations, task scheduling and many more features.
With this release WSO2 bring complete SOA stack to the cloud, Now your enterprise can enjoy the power of SOA without the hassle of maintaining your own SOA infrastructure.
WSO2 has released new versions of their SOA platform products including WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Identity Server, WSO2 ESB, WSO2 Web Service Application Server. This is a major version upgrade of these products introducing many features.
ESB:
- Priority based mediation through priority executors
- WS-Discovery support and dynamic endpoint discovery
- Message Relay for efficient pass through of messages
- Component manager to install and uninstall features (provisioning support)
- Common Internet File System (CIFS) support through the VFS transport
- File locking functionality in the VFS transport to support concurrent polling
- Smooks mediator for efficient message transformation
- Enrich mediator for smart message manipulation
- OAuth mediator for 2-legged OAuth support
- Default endpoint UI
- Hot deploy and hot update configuration elements (sequences, endpoints, proxy services etc)
- Transport level statistics collection and monitoring
- POX security support
- Dependency detection and alerting for mediation configuration elements
- Mediation statistics API and custom mediation statistics consumers
- Multiple certificate/identity support in the NHTTP transport sender
- Improved logging capabilities for the NHTTP transport
- Templates based proxy service development in the UI
- Dashboard to monitor server environment and runtime
- Easy creation and management capabilities for dynamic sequences and endpoints
- Pagination to service management, endpoint management and sequence management UIs
- Obtaining resources like WSDL’s through web proxy servers
Governance Registry
- Gadgets for impact analysis on services and registry resources
- WSDL custom view
- Dynamic Handler configuration
- Handler simulator
- Tree-based Resource view
- API to govern SOA artifacts
- Complete Web Services API for Registry
- Improved options for Service discovery
- WS-Discovery support
- Scripting support for lifecycle management
- Improved P2 based provisioning and feature management support
- Support for adding remote mounts
- Platform, and Group/Cluster based deployment model
- Support for multiple server instances
- E-mail verification for subscriptions
- Support for deleting tags and comments
- Support for PostgreSQL and DB2 DBMS
- Paged activity and resource search
- Hierarchical permission model with granular and extensible permissions
- Ability to upload metadata (in addition to importing)
- Governance Archive for uploading WSDLs and Schemas with imports
- Ability to update resource content by uploading
- Rich text editor for editing text resources
- XML editor for editing handler, lifecycle and service UI configurations
Web Service Application Server (WSO2 WSAS):
- Component Manager – The UI tool to install/uninstall Carbon featrues.
- Various bug fixes & enhancements including architectural improvements to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart, Apache Sandesha2 , WSO2 Carbon & other projects.
- Equinox P2 based provisioning support – extend your WSAS instance by installin new P2 features. See P2 based provisioning in WSO2 Carbon
- Hierarchical service support for Axis2 services, JAX-WS services, Spring services & Jar services
- Report generation for deployed services
Identity Server:
- SAML 2.0 based Single Sign-on support
- OAuth Support
- Support for bulk-user import
- Various bug fixes and enhancements including architectural improvements to Apache Axis2, Apache Rampart, Apache Sandesha2 , WSO2 Carbon and other projects.