This article describes some transactions(distributed and JMS) related use cases of WSO2 ESB. The material is suitable for advance users who wish to implement transactional use cases using WSO2 ESB.

Managing SOA resources such as processes and policies in an enterprise is an important day to day task. Keeping track of SOA resources with metadata, managing the life cycle of services and other resources, and controlling users accessing your resources using policies can easily be achieved with the WSO2 Governance Registry. Though all these features are available through a management console, this article will take you through the Governance API of the WSO2 Governance Registry.

The WS API introduces a way to access the WSO2 Governance Registry (Registry) using SOAP web service calls. This makes the Registry  accessible through a simple web service client. The WS API supports security, addressing or any other QoS aspects of web services. A client is provided that makes it possible to address the WS API just as you address the Core Registry API.

WSO2 ESB comes with a diverse range of handful mediators to process messages. When the existing core mediators comes in short for your needs, you can write your own tailor made mediator to implement your specific business requirements, you heard me right, it comes with extensibility. Your custom mediators can be simply plugged into WSO2 ESB.

The FIX (Financial Information eXchange) transport of WSO2 ESB enables the service bus to communicate with FIX acceptors and initiators. The FIX transport, combined with other powerful features of the service bus such as proxy services, provides a robust framework for developing high performance finance data routers. This article describes how to use the FIX transport of WSO2 ESB to implement a range of common finance data routing scenarios.

This article describes clustering from an architectural perspective and introduces "End Goal", "Choice of the Front End" and "Shared States across nodes" as three deciders in choosing the right clustering strategy for a particular use-case.

Mediation statistics component of WSO2 ESB provides a convenient, yet powerful mechanism for monitoring an ESB deployment. Numbers provided by this component can be used to tune up message flows, detect mediation faults and track usage patterns. In this article, Hiranya Jayathilaka describes what mediation statistics are, how to access them and how to interpret those numbers into meaningful facts.

This article discusses how to use Apache Axis2 RPCServiceClient. RPCServiceClient provides and easy to use API built on top of Axis2's ServiceClient. This illustrate what is a RPCServiceClient, how to create it and use it with the web service you create. And also the article demonstrate how to use the client by using few sample codes.

If you are trying out a latest Apache Synapse build off the Apache Synapse SVN trunk, you will notice that the Synapse configuration model has gone through some significant changes lately. In the past, Synapse was programmed to load the entire mediation configuration (sequences, endpoints, proxy services, tasks etc) from a single XML file, named synapse.xml.

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