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In this article, you will learn how to convert your WSO2 Mashup Server to a personalized dashboard. Once implemented, each user of your Mashup Server will get his own Dashboard page similar to iGoogle, that is capable of displaying gadgets for mashups in your WSO2 Mashup Server. As an added bonus, users will also have the ability to import iGoogle compatible gadgets from other sources to this dashboard. All this could be done, either by upgrading to version 1.5 distribution of the Mashup Server or taking a simple Subversion checkout and doing a Maven2 build on your part.

This tutorial by Yumani Ranaweera will take you through a couple of scenarios to demonstrate the instant messaging capability of the WSO2 Mashup Server. WSO2 Mashup Server currently supports basic IM capabilities such as real-time communication, instantaneous communication between a number of parties simultaneously, by transmitting information quickly and efficiently.

Join Deepal Jayasinghe as he evaluates two of the popular registry products in the market.

Today, the data universe of Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing and Master Data Management (MDM) still lives largely outside the scope of SOA. But an enterprise view of Data Services may well bring these worlds together.

The WS-MetaDataExchange specification defines protocols that support the dynamic exchange of metadata that is relevant to the service interaction (such as XML Schema WS-policy and WSDL descriptions) between Web services endpoints. WS-MetadataExchange specification  provides more information you need to know about it.

The JavaScript language allows users to set properties on any object, including a function (cause a function in JavaScript is an object). The Mashup Server treats some of these predefined properties in a special way. We refer to these special properties as annotations.

With its allusion to the version number that commonly designates software upgrades, Web 2.0 was a natural way to indicate the improved form of the WWW. With critics declaring it as a meaningless marketing buzzword and its existence hotly debated to date, let us focus back on Web technologies without engaging in meaningless arguments about whether there is or isn't a 'Web 2.0'. In this article by Ayanthi Anandagoda, she takes a look back at Web 2.0 and attempts to take a glimpse in to the future..

Often times the requirement comes up to send a SOAP envelope to a different location than what's specified inside WS-Addressing 'To' address. This knowledge base by Eran Chinthaka outlines how.