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WSO2 Governance as a Service is an online multi-tenant supported instance of WSO2 Governance Registry which is the solution for SOA Governance from the WSO2 SOA stack. You can start trying out WSO2 Governance as a Service by accessing the http://governance.cloud.wso2.com and creating an account for your organization (free for limited use).

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 announced an another round of release of their famous SOA products.

• 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

WSO2 -An open source middleware company- announced the release of bunch of their SOA enabling products along with Carbon 2.0.0 which is an OSGI based unified platform that all the WSO2 java products are built on.

• 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:)!!!

Are you curious What SOA is? Or How SOA revolutionize Enterprise technologies in recent times? Here is a great opportunity to you.

WSO2 is hosting a SOA Summer School for Free, starting from 18th June. It will enlighten you on different aspects of SOA like SOA in Enterprise, Scalable SOA, SOA with Security, SOA Governance, SOA in ESBS, BPMs and many more.

For more details visit the official page for the WSO2 SOA Summer School in here, http://wso2.org/training.