The Complete Middleware Platform for Heterogeneous SOAs

SOA is not only about service hosting(implementing Web Services that expose certain business functionality over network). It’s about enhancing efficiency, agility and productivity of an enterprise by applying service oriented design paradigm and service oriented architecture concepts to when implementing information systems which are critical to business functionality of enterprises.

So when it comes to implementing SOAs, there is a need for several technologies, products, APIs, supporting infrastructure and various other parts. In a typical SOA implementation at least there will be a service hosting environment, an ESB, a service governance tool, a business process management system, a portal server and set of monitoring tool which used to monitor the whole system real-time for fine tuning business processes, service APIs and etc.. There are lot of tools and products available which provide the above mentioned functionalities. Some provide set of functionalities and some has several products that provides most of the functionalities separately. The problems with those existing products and platforms are they are not very well fit together even though they are from same vendor or most of the time those platforms are heavy weight and required lot of time to getting started with them and getting familiar with the tools.

For a long time IT departments heavily suffered from drawbacks of the available products. The cost, complexity, time need to getting familiar with the products and the maintenance issues became a real pain to the enterprises use these products.

With the recent announcements on availability of WSO2 Gadget Server and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, WSO2 SOA Platform has become the most complete and comprehensive open source SOA platform which provides all the functionalities required to full fill SOA implementors requirements while keeping it’s simplicity intact.

I can assure you that it is the most light weight, high performance, extensible and most user friendly SOA platform out there. Because of the power of OSGi based WSO2 Carbon platform, we were able to build unified, consistent and fully componentized SOA platform out there in the market.

If you want to know how WSO2 come here to the state where we are now, read the recent blog post from Samisa, director of engineering WSO2. Also this not the end, this is only the start of becoming world’s best SOA platform provider.