WSO2 Carbon

Supun Kamburugamuva writes about OSGi enabled componentization and recent beta releases of the WSO2 Carbon platform.

Date: Mon, 22nd Jun, 2009
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Supun Kamburugamuva
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WSO2 Inc
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WSO2 recently released the 2.0-beta of its Carbon platform accompanied by WSO2 Governance Registry v3.0.0-beta1, WSO2 WSAS v3.1.0-beta1, WSO2 ESB v2.1.0-beta1 and WSO2 Identity Server v2.0.0-beta1.

Supun Kamburugamuva a WSO2 Engineer in this post, writes on the need for componentization and how WSO2 Carbon addresses this requirement. Also included in the post is a brief introduction to WSO2 Carbon structure, that consists of the platform, the Carbon Orbit and Carbon components.

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