Mountain View, CA – November 17, 2008 – With the global economy slowing to a crawl, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on SOA solutions from the large platform vendors can be hard to justify. Fortunately, the availability of proven open source SOA software means IT departments can continue to move full speed ahead with their SOA implementations.

A new case study from WSO2, the open source SOA company, highlights how one customer has successfully implemented an SOA initiative to deliver consolidated reporting from enterprise applications distributed across multiple systems. Using WSO2’s open source middleware, the company was freed from software licensing fees. However, the customer invested in training from WSO2, which allowed the IT team to deliver the first iteration of its SOA initiative within just a few weeks. WSO2 SOA middleware now implemented at the customer site includes the:

• WSO2 Web Services Application Server for composing Web services
• WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus for connecting Web services
• WSO2 Registry for SOA governance

The new WSO2 case study highlights the value of implementing an open source registry in conjunction with the application server and ESB to ensure a comprehensive SOA that can grow with the enterprise’s demands.

The value of that strategy is echoed by Rob Hailstrom, analyst and software infrastructure practice director with The Butler Group. Rather than waiting until the enterprise can cost-justify a commercial registry for its SOA governance, he has written in his July 8, 2008 DataMonitor article, “A far better solution would be to implement from the outset an open source solution where only the training and support are cost items.”

Mountain View, CA – November 14, 2008 – Conventional wisdom is that an enterprise service bus acts as the central backplane in a SOA. However, this proven scenario is not optimal for every enterprise, and developers need the flexibility to implement other configurations for their Web service mediation.

In many cases, SOAs connecting multiple platforms are better served by a network of ESBs managed by one or more registries. Such configurations have often been cost-prohibitive with traditional middleware. Now, lightweight, open source ESBs and registries are making networked Web service mediation accessible, affordable and easier to manage.

WSO2, the open source SOA company, has been leading the charge toward flexible SOA configurations with the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and WSO2 Registry. The lightweight WSO2 ESB embeds the WSO2 Registry to store configuration and metadata. Meanwhile, the WSO2 Registry product works with one or more ESBs to provide run-time governance and policy enforcement. Together, these products give developers unprecedented options for configuring and managing their Web service mediation networks.

The WSO2 webinar “WSO2 Synergies: ESB and Registry” will introduce developers to the WSO2 ESB and the WSO2 Registry, and then focus on how these two technologies can collaborate to achieve goals such as centralized configuration and control of a mediation network, automatic run-time enforcement of design-time policies, and business activity monitoring. The webinar will be held Tuesday, November 18, from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Pacific.

Presenting will be Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 architect, who focuses on vertical market capabilities, including financial services. Asanka is also a committer of the Apache Software Foundation where he contributes to the Apache Synapse ESB project, upon which the WSO2 ESB is based.

Mountain View, CA – November 7, 2008 – Developers bear the burden of making SOAs work. With enterprise data stored in so many disparate systems, the business processes that developers build are limited in the impact they can have within an architecture. WSO2, the open source SOA company, gives developers the ability to expose and aggregate data as Web services, thereby unlocking information from the multiple sources being tapped by SOAs.

WSO2 addresses the data access challenge with the Data Services functionality of the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) , winner of this year’s SearchSOA.com Product of the Year award in the Data Services/Integration category. The open source WSAS Web services engine, based on Apache Axis2, provides a secure, transactional and reliable runtime to create, consume and deploy Web services. More recently, in October 2008, WSO2 launched its standalone Data Services solution, designed for database administrators and programmers.

WSO2 will teach developers advanced techniques for taking corporate data and exposing it as Web services within their SOAs. The live, online trainingwill be held November 10 and 11, 2008.

The WSO2 “Advanced Data Services” live, online training course for developers will run on Monday, November 10 (9 a.m.-12 p.m. GMT in the UK and Europe) and Tuesday, November 11 (9 a.m.-12 p.m. PST in North America). The course, priced at $199, will review advanced techniques for using Data Services capabilities in the WSAS.

In working with relational databases, attendees will learn how to expose a single database table as a service, join multiple tables, use nested queries, dynamically change queries, access stored procedures and functions, invoke a service using a URL, parameterize a service; connect to a data source bound to a JNDI name, access data services using a Java client, and more.

WSO2 also has published a new white paper that demonstrates how WSO2 Data Services has been designed to reduce redundancy in data access. The paper explores the differences in traditional data access methods, which are specific to each data source, with the “service-enablement” approach to exposing data.