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.

New Orleans, LA – November 3, 2008 – WSO2, the open source SOA company, will lead a brainstorming session where developers will discuss best practices for adopting Apache Web Services in an enterprise SOA. The WSO2-led Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session is part of ApacheCon US 2008. ApacheCon, the official conference of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is being held November 3-7, 2008 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans.

As an ApacheCon exhibitor, WSO2 also will demonstrate its complete platform of lightweight, open source SOA products for Web service creation, connection, composition and governance—all of which are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

The Birds-of-a-Feather session, “Helping Enterprises Adopt Web Services in their SOA Architecture,” will provide a forum for discussing how enterprises can implement Apache Web Services to increase efficiency and improve business processes.

• When: Thursday, November 6, 8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
• Where: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, BoF Room 2
• Session Leader: Keith Chapman, WSO2 senior software engineer and Apache Axis2 committer

Keith Chapman is part of the development team behind the WSO2 Mashup Server for composing Web services. Like most WSO2 engineers, he dedicates roughly half of his time to contributing to ASF projects. As a result, Keith brings a first-hand knowledge of adapting Apache capabilities to real-world enterprise SOA demands.

ApacheCon also will feature a half-day training session by Deepal Jayasinghe, who contributes to projects within WSO2 through its Oxygen Tank open source developer portal, as well as ASF. Entitled “Real World Axis2/Java: Highlighting Performance and Scalability,” the session will review the Axis2 architecture and provide real-life examples of how to solve customer problems.

• When: Monday, November 3, 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
• Where: Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, Poydras Room
• Presenter: Deepal Jayasinghe, computer science graduate student, Georgia Tech