The need for Business Processors in your SOA

What is a business process?
Why are business processors important in an SOA?
Can your SOA be more agile with the use of a business process?
Do we need a standard to describe business processors?
What role does BPEL play in a business Process?
What is the WSO2 Business Process Server?
Can a business process be secured, made to be reliable or its access be throttled?

Are you looking for answers to these questions? Then this Webinar is for you. This Webinar is presented by Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WSO2 and founding author of BPEL4WS, and Milinda Pathirage, project lead for WSO2 BPS.

WSO2 Business Process Server and Carbon - Podcast

In this Podcast Dennis Byron talks to Paul Fremantle the CTO of WSO2 on the newly launched WSO2 Business Process Server. Paul also touches on the benefits the WSO2 BPS got by being built on the Carbon Platform.

What is the WSO2 Business Process Server?

The WSO2 Business Process Server which was released a couple of weeks ago is the latest addition to its Open Source SOA Stack. In this podcast Milinda Pathirage the lead developer of the project explains what the WSO2 Business Process Server is and how its fits into your SOA. He also touches on the advantages the business process server gained by been built on top of the WSO2 Carbon platform.

How to Cluster WSO2 Carbon based Products

Clustering for high availability and scalability is one of the main requirements of any enterprise deployment. As an Enterprise SOA offering WSO2 Carbon based products are capable of running in a clustered environment.

Well if that's the case how does one configure WSO2 products so that they can be clustered? Azeez, an Architect and Product Manager of WSO2 WSAS and Mr clustering at WSO2 has written a couple of articles that explain this in details. In the first article titled "Introduction to WSO2 Carbon Clustering" he explains some of the core concepts associated with WSO2 Carbon clustering. In his second article titled "WSO2 Carbon Cluster Configuration Language" he goes on to explains in detail the clustering configuration language used by WSO2 Carbon based products.

These articles apply to WSO2 WSAS (Web Services Application Server), WSO2 ESB (Enterprice Service Bus), WSO2 BPS (Business Process Server) as well as Apache Axis2.

WSO2 BPS (Business Process Server) 1.0 Released!

The 1.0 version of the WSO2 BPS (Business Process Server) is now available for download. The WSO2 BPS is built on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon Framework which brings compartmentalization into SOA.

Key features in this release include,

• Deploying Business Processes written in compliance with WS-BPEL 2.0 Standard and BPEL4WS 1.1 standard.
• Managing BPEL packages, processes and process instances.
• Data Sources support.
• External Database support for BPEL engine.
• WS-Security support for business processes.
• WS-RM support for business processes.
• 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 BPS to fit into your exact requirements, by removing certain features or by adding new optional features.

The WSO2 BPS is released under the Apache Licence version 2.0. Download it tryit out and give us your feedback.