Enterprise Messaging with JMS, AMQP, MQTT, and Kafka Integrating Applications, Cloud Services, and Data Security in WSO2 ESB Development and Deployment Methodology Administrating and Extending WSO2 ESB Professional and Applied ComputingBeginning WSO2 ESB is the latest book on WSO2 ESB, written by Kasun Indrasiri and published by Apress. The book was released a couple of weeks back and I got my author-signed copy yesterday. It was so inviting to read — I could not say no! (even though my three-years old little kid was pulling me out of the room).WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) is a lightweight, high performance, comprehensive ESB. It is 100% open source and effectively addresses integration standards and supports all integration patterns, enabling interoperability among various heterogeneous systems and business applications. Kasun’s book covers most of the WSO2 ESB capabilities in detail.Following are few key points that make this book a must-have for anyone interested in learning about WSO2 ESB.
The first three chapters of the book talk about basic fundamentals behind an ESB and the building blocks of the WSO2 ESB. For any beginner, these are the key chapters — and I highly recommend you to try out the samples too. After the 3rd chapter — if you are a beginner — you may directly proceed to chapter 10. It talks about WSO2 Developer Studio — the tool used to build WSO2 ESB message flows.Chapter 4 to 8 of the book talk about common integration scenarios between multiple heterogeneous systems.Chapter 4 talks about eight techniques related to message processing: message pass-through, filtering and switching, transformation, enriching, validation, service orchestration, protocol and message format transformation and how to manipulate a message with properties. If you are interested in building enterprise integration patterns with WSO2 ESB, this is the chapter for you.Chapter 5 talks about how to implement inbound/outbound SOAP and REST service calls with WSO2 ESB.
Messaging with JMS, AMQP, MQTT and Kafka is covered in chapter 6. Chapter 7 talks about file based integrations and the chapter 8 explains how WSO2 ESB can be used to connect to multiple cloud/SaaS applications. The book does not cover all the cloud connectors supported by WSO2 ESB — but a solid foundation to work with any of them. You can check WSO2 ESB Connector Store to see all the supported connectors (150+). The chapter 7 further explains the WebSockets capabilities introduced in WSO2 ESB 5.0.0. If you are interested in leaning about SAP, HL7, Salesforce integration, this is the chapter for you.No discussion is completed without talking about security. The chapter 9 of the book covers most of the key security scenarios one should know in securing both inbound/outbound SOAP/REST calls with WSO2 ESB. The last two chapters of the book talk about development and deployment aspects of the WSO2 ESB artifacts — and then the administration. The chapter 10, which talks about the WSO2 Developer Studio, further introduces Data Mapper and Mediation Debugger.
Both of them are new features introduced in WSO2 ESB 5.0.0. Data Mapper mediator is a data mapping solution that can be integrated into a mediation sequence. It converts and transforms one data format to another, or changes the structure of the data in a message. The book explains how to use WSO2 Developer Studio to create a graphical mapping configuration and generates the files required to execute this graphical mapping configuration by the WSO2 Data Mapper engine. The Mediation Debugger adds debugging capabilities to the ESB mediation flows.Analytics is another new feature introduced in WSO2 ESB 5.0.0. The last chapter of the book talks about that. ESB analytics is a separate distribution that you can download from the WSO2 ESB product page. It provides two main functionalities related to the ESB run-time: statistics and message tracing.In this book Kasun’s more focus is on the developer. The book does not cover in detail the administration aspects of the ESB like clustering, caching, user management and other deployment best practices.
Also I didn’t see the book talks about WUM (WSO2 Update Manager). WUM is a simple command line tool that connects to WSO2 Update, determines which updates are new and relevant, and downloads them. Possibly all these topics would lead into another book on WSO2 ESB Administration.Overall it’s an awesome book — and the best resource to learn about WSO2 ESB. Congratulations Kasun — on your first book! The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) serves as a key component in most of the enterprise grade deployments. In most cases, the ESB removes point-to-point dependencies in your system to build a highly-scalable, loosely-coupled solution. ESB is a key ingredient to build an SOA infrastructure, but it's not a must. Even with an ESB, if industry best practices and patterns are not followed, users will end up in a mess. This book will teach you the essentials to get started with WSO2 ESB and solve the most commonly-faced integration problems. The book starts by explaining the need for an ESB and the problems it solves.
It will cover the most widely-used enterprise integration patterns, including Content Based Router, Dynamic Router, Splitter, Aggregator, Scatter & Gather, Publish & Subscribe, Detour, Service Chaining, Content Enricher and Message Broker. Learn how WSO2 ESB can bring third-party business messaging systems such as SAP, FIX, and HL7 into the SOA world, as well as how to integrate the Twitter connector into your business messaging flow. Providing background on the “when and why” of the topic, then diving into practical, instruction-based examples called “recipes”, where each recipe will explain how to address a given challenge in enterprise integration. If you are an architect or a developer, keen on building solutions to solve enterprise integration problems, this is the book for you! Understanding of SOA design concepts, SOAP, REST, and related messaging systems is important. However, you are not expected to be an advanced user of WSO2 ESB.WSO2 Governance Registryfor Developers
Ever dreamed of becoming an expert of the WSO2 Governance Registry? This is your chance. Yenlo is a Premier Partner of WSO2 and delivers first class training on WSO2 products around the world. With many hands-on training labs based on years of experience implementing the technology at customers all over the world. So what are you going to learn and do? Let us explain to you. Governance encompasses more than just technology; governance also includes people and processes. The WSO2 Governance Registry (GR) provides the right level of structure straight out of the box to support SOA governance, configuration governance, development process governance, design and runtime governance, lifecycle management, and team collaboration. Today you may have ad-hoc processes and use shared spreadsheets to register enterprise services, which is a good start. The WSO2 Governance Registry helps you move to the next level and fully understand the state and scope of your SOA portfolio by communicating and managing the lifecycle of your services, and by identifying and highlighting the dependencies between services and consumers.
Registry DB schema and Data Access Layer Mounting and Federated Deployments of the Registry Developing Custom Asset Models Monitoring, Reporting and Statistics APIs and Extension Points WSO2 Developer Studio Registry Plugins Populating Data Samples into the Repository This program is designed for IT professionals with experience in systems integration and explicitly targets senior integration specialists interested in becoming certified on WSO2 Governance Registry technology, or IT architects/developers with in interest in this area. You must have relevant expierence with the WSO2 API manager or WSO2 ESB before entering this course. In this course, participants will learn how to install, configure, and maintain the WSO2 Governance Registry modules, and to work with the WSO2 Governance Registry as a whole. Minimum required knowledge before you enter the course Participants should have completed the "WSO2 ESB for Developers – Fundamentals" or the "WSO2 API manager for Developers" training.