Application Server

WSO2 Application Server mainly supports hosting Web Services and Web Applications. One of the major features included in the upcoming release (version 4.5.0) of WSO2 AS is the integration of Apache CXF. So from AS 4.5.0 on-wards, CXF users also will be able to host their applications inside WSO2 AS with great ease. Once you deploy your CXF application inside WSO2 AS, it automatically inherits lots of benefits from the underlying WSO2 Carbon platform.

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Here in this article we will discuss how to deploy alfresco on WSO2 Application Server and WSO2 Stratos Application Server. Alfresco is a leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM) and WSO2 Application Server brings together the best of breed in open source technologies for Web Applications with Apache Tomcat, and Web Services with Apache Axis2.

As the number of services and resources grow in an SOA deployment, the task of locating which service resides where is going to become tedious. Wrong or outdated endpoint configurations can lead to application faults, service outages and business revenue losses. WS-Discovery is a standard protocol for publishing and discovering service endpoints in a complex SOA. Using WS-Discovery, systems can automatically discover the services and endpoints they are interested in without any human intervention. In this article, Hiranya Jayathilaka provides a brief introduction to WS-Discovery and how this standard is supported by WSO2 Carbon based products such as WSO2 AS, WSO2 DSS, WSO2 GReg and WSO2 ESB.

By default all WSO2 products shipped with a self signed certificate. In-order to make products more secure, many users prefer to install a CA signed certificate into the product. This KB describes steps to install a CA signed certificate into WSO2 products.

The WSO2 Application Server is an enterprise-ready application server based on the WSO2 Carbon platform. Being the successor of the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS), WSO2 Application Server (AS) supports web application deployment and management in addition to its web services management capabilities. Coupled with features of WSO2 Carbon, users now have the capability to manage their applications that range from Web Services to web applications in a unified manner within the AppServer management console itself.

All products of WSO2 platform uses the Apache Rampart to provide security for Web Services. As a result, all features of Apache Rampart are inherited by the WSO2 products. Crypto objects are used to store properties that required to perform signature/encryption. Crypto objects have information such as as crypto provider, keystore and its password. Until now, Crypto objects were initialized on per call basis.

Messaging is the live wire of modern enterprises. In enterprise messaging, a messaging client should be tasked with both sending messages to and receiving messages from any other messaging client or messaging broker. In an era where businesses take place over differing platforms, platform interoperability is a key factor in spanning heterogeneous working environments, and even different communication protocols such as JMS. Here we discuss how to configure the WSO2 Application Server to work with JMS.