Webinar - Using WSO2 Carbon to Help Convert One-Sixth of New Zealand’s Population into Mobile Telecom Customers

The webinar for my previous post - WSO2 Middleware to Enable Mobile Services for Telecommunications is scheduled on 17th May 2012.

Join Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 Director Solutions Architecture, and Waruna Ranasinghe, WSO2 Senior Software Engineer, along with Guest Speaker Neeraj Satja, 2degrees Mobile Software Development Manager, for a discussion on how the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform has enabled 2degrees to deliver the innovation, high volume and high performance required to be a mobile market leader.

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WSO2 Middleware to Enable Mobile Services for Telecommunications

"With WSO2 Carbon, we’ve found a strong middleware platform that is enabling us to deliver the innovation, high volume and high performance required to be a mobile market leader." says 2degrees Software Development Manager Neeraj Satija.

2Degrees Mobile, despite being the newest mobile company in New Zealand, has been able attract 1/6 of the New Zealand population. Having entered a saturated market, 2Degrees has been providing innovative services to users to attract customers from established mobile companies. WSO2 Middleware Platform (i.e WSO2 ESB) has facilitated them to enable innovative mobile services rapidly. It is the WSO2 Middleware that enabled 2Degrees to increase the response to the market by providing most suited middleware to rapidly implement mobile services. 

Currently, 2 Degrees uses WSO2 ESB, WSO2 DSS and WSO2 BPS to enable Mobile Services to the customers.

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WSO2 Business Process Server 1.1.0 is Released

WSO2 Business Process Server (WSO2 BPS) team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.0 of the easy-to-use open source business process server that executes business processes written following WS-BPEL standard.

WSO2 BPS v1.1.0 is available for download at [1].

The WSO2 BPS v1.1.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform[2] (Middleware a' la carte), and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for you SOA.

An open source product, WSO2 BPS v1.1.0 is available under the Apache Software License (v2.0) . This includes all of the extra integration and management functionality as well.

New Features in WSO2 BPS v1.1.0

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- Apache ODE trunk is used as the BPEL Engine

- New WSO2 Carbon integration layer for Apache ODE

- BPEL Process Versioning Support

- Support for invoking secured(Using WS-Security) partner services.

- Experimental clustering support

- Invoke activity recovery support through management console

- E4X based data manipulation support for BPEL assignments

- BPEL Extension support for extending WS-BPEL language

- Equinox P2 based provisioning support - extend your BPS instance by installing new P2 features [5].

Other Key Features

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- Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard.

- Ability deploy BPEL event listeners

- Managing BPEL packages, processes and process instances.

- WS-Security support for business processes.

- Ability to use external data base system as the BPEL engine's perssitence storage

- Caching support for business processes.

- Throttling support for business processes.

- Transport management.

- Internationalized web based management console.

- System monitoring.

- Try-it for business processes.

- SOAP Message Tracing.

- Web Services tooling support such as WSDL2Java, Java2WSDL and WSDL Converter.

- Customizable server - You can customize the WSO2 BPS to fit into your exact requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new optional features.

How to Run

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1. Extract the downloaded zip.

2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder.

3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate.

4. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon

5. Use "admin", "admin" as the user name and password.

6. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the

property -DosgiConsole when starting the server

Known issues

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All the known issues have been filed here [3]. Please report any other

issues you find as JIRA entries.

Contact us

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WSO2 Business Process Server developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

For Users: carbon-user@wso2.org

For Developers: carbon-dev@wso2.org

Alternatively, questions can also be raised in the Business Process Server forum

at http://wso2.org/forum/886.

Training

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WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs, including

training on general Web services as well as WSO2 Business Process Server,

Apache Axis2, Data Services and a number of other products. For

additional support information please refer to

http://wso2.com/training/course-catalog/

Support

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WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support

programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business

hours, to premium 24x7 phone support. For additional support information

please refer to http://wso2.com/support/

For more information on WSO2 Business Process Server, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank[4].

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Business Process Server.

-The WSO2 Business Process Server team

[1] http://wso2.org/downloads/bps

[2] http://wso2.org/projects/carbon

[3] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON

[4] http://wso2.org

[5] https://wso2.org/wiki/display/carbon/p2-based-provisioning-support