Introduction
Unfortunately i did not went to the WSO2 Conference in Asia but i went through the presentations and this blog item describes some interesting topics i came accross.There were a lot of different tracks:
- API Management
- Cloud
- Strategy
- Integration'
- Security
- Governance
- Architecture
- Analytics
- DevOps
- Internet of Things (IoT)
API
API (Management) is a hot topic. Almost all reference architectures use APIs to expose functionality, either to mobile apps or other apps. It is used within Microservices as contracts, it is used in connected enterprises that want to expose their APIs into the API economy system and it is used internally to manage and govern services.
IoT
Internet of Things is a also a big thing, so also at the WSO2 conference.
The WSO2 IoT Server was announced in 2016 Q2.
Features of this product:
- Implementation of WSO2 IoT Reference Architecture
- Device Management
- Device Analytics
- Device adapters
- Supported protocols: MQTT, XMPP, WebSockets, HTTP
- Device Control
It will also be part of WSO2 Cloud offering.
WSO2 Microservices Framework for Java (MSF4J)
Another interesting product is MSF4J, which is a lightweight, high performance framework for building microservices in Java.
- It uses Java annotations to define microservices APIs and metrics
- Out-of-the-box integration with WSO2 DAS for analytics and metrics of the APIs
- Transport based on Netty 4.0
- Low memory footprint
- Fast startup
- Swagger definition to code in Developer Studio
Analytics family
Analytics is becoming more attention and WSO2 has several products to support this:
- Data Analytics Server
This used to be the BAM product - Complex Event Processing
- Machine Learner for prediction models
- Enterprise Service Bus to get data
Cloud Offerings
Managed Cloud
One of the new cloud offerings of WSO2 is Managed Cloud. As the name suggests, your WSO2 environment is managed by WSO2. The environment is placed in the Amazon VPC cloud. This can be a viable solution for organisations how can not manage their environment themselves.
The regions that are supported: US East, US West, Asia Pacific, South America and Europe (where?).
The regions that are supported: US East, US West, Asia Pacific, South America and Europe (where?).
Cloud offering that offers WSO2 products in the public cloud. Currently only API Manager and App Manager (Beta) available. Will be extended with Identity, Device and Analytics platforms.
When dealing with Cloud you need to think of:
* Which Cloud services to use (there are a lot !) -> WSO2 Integration connectors
* Federated cloud identities (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etc) -> WSO2 Identity Server
* Which Cloud services to use (there are a lot !) -> WSO2 Integration connectors
* Federated cloud identities (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etc) -> WSO2 Identity Server
* Development in cloud -> WSO2 App Factory
* Running apps in the cloud -> WSO2 Managed Cloud
Mobility
WSO2 has a new product called the Enterprise Mobility Manager. I did not go through those slides yet as i am focussing only on Middleware platform for the moment.
Integration
A few new features in ESB 4.9:
* Dynamic inbound channels
* Kafka, MQTT and RabbitMQ protocol support
New in upcoming ESB 5.0 release:
* Mediation debugger
* Data Mapper
* JMS 2.0 support
* Websocket protocol support
New WSO2 Gateway product with high performance message handling is used in several other products (API Manager, ESB, App Manager, Load balancer).
Conclusion
Integration and API management remain an important topic within the WSO2 product suite. Some interesting added products are MSF4J, Enterprise Mobility Manager and IoT Server.
Also analytics become more important within the suite and security remains an important aspect of todays IT with BYOD and federated authentications.
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