Did a Podcast!

Just yesterday, we published the first ever podcast on the WSO2 Business Process Server product. The product itself is only months old, so I'm positive the podcast will turn out to be a useful resource.

"The open source WSO2 BPS enables developers to easily deploy business processes written using the WS-BPEL standard, and it also serves as the business process management and hosting environment for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Based on WSO2 Carbon, the industry’s first fully componentized SOA framework, it provides developers with a level of flexibility and ease of integration unmatched by any other business process management (BPM) solution on the market."
Read WSO2 BPS Full Press Release here.

Kudos to Milinda, WSO2's Technical Lead for the Business Server project, for making it for the recording last week despite not being in perfect health.
WSO2 has also planned a Webinar titled "Better Business Processes in your SOA with WSO2 BPS" this March, to review the evolution of BPEL and introduce the Business Process Server.

It was a brand new experience for me too, as it was the first time I actually hosted a podcast. Needless to say, it was to a certain degree, a huge learning experience. Its been 5 years since I last took part in anything like this and the last one being a news read at RMIT's youth radio station synFM.

Listen in and feel free to give your feedback. I guarantee, this are going to get better:)

OT Face Make Over Celebrates Carbon Releases

The WSO2 Oxygen Tank - developer portal for open source SOA Web services and middleware received a new face lift in celebration of the Carbon-based product releases.WSO2 Carbon, based on the Eclipse Equinox OSGi engine, is a fully open source componentized SOA framework that lets developers deploy only the required components for a deployment, thus eliminating unnecessary middleware integration complexities.

Here's the background and how and why from KT - the project manager of the Web site project: http://katiepoplin.com/2009/02/website-redesign/

Ebook Out and Carbon Closing Up..

The all new WSO2 Carbon eBook shows how plug-and-play components can cut SOA complexity.. Indulge now!Aroud the same time, the Carbon team seems to be nearing the end of the new beginnings!

Library Gets a New Look!!

Not merely a face lift, the new library deployment a long outstanding library capability - i.e. the ability to search by project. Check this out yourself.

Coming up .. WSO2 Carbon 1.0

WSO2 team is working around the clock for the GA release of our revolutionary middleware product WSO2 Carbon.

Already known to be flexible, agile and extensible, the final beta release of Carbon was made available on the 12th of this month. The team is currently working on several release candidates.

With this release, we will have WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSO2 WSAS) v3.0, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) v2.0, WSO2 Registry v2.0 and WSO2 Business Process Server (WSO2 BPS) v1.0 coming out as carbon-based products.

WSO2 team will then go on to make the framework itself available as a download.

WSO2will be repeating "WSO2 Synergies: The Carbon Story" Webinar on 17th February 9am PST. Stay tuned to find out about the unified SOA middleware platform that allows you to seamlessly add product capabilities as your implementation grows.

WSO2 Carbon Memory Usage

Figure: WSO2 Carbon System Statistics Page

Requests were sent continuously at the rate of 1 request every 200ms for nearly 17 hours at while the memory usage & memory allocated graphs were traced. The Carbon front-end running JSPs & Web service stubs, and the Carbon back-end running Admin Web services were hosted on the same JVM instance. The graph in the figure shows a garbage collection pattern. On average, just 90MB of memory has been consumed.

Carbon Duet Out Now!!

The much awaited podcast on WSO2 Carbon from Sanjiva and Samisa is now available on OT.
A must listen for anyone following up on the next generation of SOA middleware.