Training on Apache Synapse & WSO2 ESB

Last week I had a great opportunity to attend a two day training on Apache Synapse and the WSO2 ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). This was an internal training conducted by Asankha. The first day of the training focused on what the WSO2 ESB is and how users would use it. He also took us through all the in built mediators of the ESB. The second day of the training focused on how the ESB Works. For me this was the most interesting part of the training.

Transports are a major part of an ESB. Asankha took us into detail of each transport, the most interesting was the JMS transport and the NHTTP Transport (Non Blocking HTTP Transport). I had played around with the JMS Transport in the mashup server. I even wrote an article on how the JMS Transport can b used in the mashup server. Knowing how to use something is different from knowing how it works.

Next in line was the most anticipated NHTTP Transport. This was the major component of the ESB and all its great performance was due to it. It was s pleasure to get to know how it works.

Prior to this i had used the WSO2 ESB on a customer project and getting to know how it works was really intriguing.