SOA is a popular approach to enterprise architecture because it can improve IT flexibility, allowing a business to quickly adapt to changes. However, many specifications and implementations of "SOA solutions" are available making it somewhat difficult to figure what you really need (and what you don't) to build and manage an SOA. WSO2 is giving control back to software architects and developers, with a unified SOA middleware platform that allows you to seamlessly add product capabilities as your implementation grows.

This case study highlights how one customer successfully implemented an SOA initiative to deliver consolidated reporting from enterprise applications distributed across multiple systems. Using WSO2’s open source middleware, the company was freed from software licensing fees. Their IT team was also able to deliver the first iteration of its SOA initiative within just a few weeks.

In this tutorial by Prabath Siriwardena, you will learn how WSO2 Identity Solution can be deployed over a user store based on an Active Directory [AD].

HydraExpress together with HydraSDO and HydraSCA form an SOA platform similar to the WSO2 WSF/C platform. In this article, Damitha Kumarage compares the features of WSO2 WSF/C and RogueWave HydraExpress.

Given the tools we use with Web services today, we might not look at what is on the wire when we do Web service invocations. However, there are times you need to understand what's on the wire for different reasons. Recognizing the version of a SOAP message might help to better understand some of the problems associated within Web service communications. In this article, we will discuss how you can differentiate between SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 messages, by looking at various features of each message.

Although you may not know it yet, the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the WSO2 Registry are in a serious relationship! The newest version of the WSO2 ESB embeds the WSO2 Registry to store configuration and meta-data, and the Registry (the centerpiece of WSO2's SOA governance strategy) works with the ESB to provide run-time governance and policy enforcement.

In this screencast by Dimuthu Gamage, he demonstrates how to consume a weather service in the National Digital Forecasting database, using WSO2 WSF/PHP.

Jonathan Marsh, Director of Mashup Technologies for WSO2, continues development of a podcast statistics mashup, augmenting it with an ongoing history of the podcast download count. Shows how code can be periodically executed to monitor changes, and an XML structure representing the history to be built up over time. Demonstrates generating, importing and using Javascript stubs to compose the Web scraping service with an external storage service. Annotations for operation “safety” are explored, including their effect on the HTTP binding in exposing the service RESTfully.