Together with Sanjiva and the rest of the WSO2 architecture team, I've been thinking a lot about what it means for applications and middleware to work well in a cloud environment - on top of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service such as Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, or Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.

This is a historic week for SOAP .. it was on April 26, 2000 that the SOAP v1.1 specification was published. Then, it was 10 years to the date today that we published IBM SOAP4J, the first ever SOAP implementation!

The WSO2 Governance Registry supports Resource (and Collection) Lifecycles along with Lifecycle Management via the Management Console. With the help of this feature client-side scripting support for lifecycles can be done easily via WSO2 Governance Registry.

A common query in our forums is whether Gadgets can communicate with each other while running in the Portal. With WSO2 Gadget Server, like all WSO2 products, is 100% open source under the Apache license, has the capability of inter gadget communication with the help of publisher and subscriber gadgets.

WSO2 Carbon is a componentized Service Oriented Platform(SOA) platform which is build on top OSGi. OSGi defines a way to create true modular systems. The unit of modularization in OSGi is called a bundle. Legacy Java applications is collection of Jar files and OSGi application is a collection of modules/bundles. Bundle is just a jar file with some additional manifest headers.

In this podcast, Prabath Siriwardene and Thilina Mahesh Buddhika explains about the new product released by WSO2; WSO2 Cloud Identity.

In this blog post, Prabath Siriwardene a Senior Software Engineer explains how to use OpenID with WSO2 Cloud Identity.

In this blog post, Prabath Siriwardene a Senior Software Engineer shows a step by step how-to on Getting started with the Cloud Identity service.

WSO2 Cloud Identity presents the next generation way of managing user accounts of organizations. It can provide complete Identity Management solution for your organization and can be visualized as a online user storage as well. So why do you want to store user accounts of your organization in WSO2 Cloud Identity?

This article explains how you can integrate Google Apps with WSO2 Cloud Identity service. WSO2 Cloud Identity is the WSO2's latest hosted cloud service which provides organizations with a convenient way of dealing with identity management across various applications and services.