Advancing Integration Competency and Excellence with the WSO2 Integration Platform

I am glad that WSO2Con Asia 2014 is held in Sri Lanka. Undoubtedly, It is like the biggest SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) conference that ever held in Sri Lanka. Not only you get to learn anything and everything about SOA but also you get to learn it with hands-on sessions. We all know that best way to learn something is to try it out yourself. So, this is the very best reason why you should attend the tutorial session on "Advancing Integration Competency and Excellence with the WSO2 Integration Platform" done by Dushan and Shammi. 

Mainly, this tutorial session will be focused on the followings,

• New WSO2 ESB Cloud Connectors
• New RESTful Integration capabilities
• Store and Forward and advanced integration patterns

These are some of the latest additions that were done to our ESB. If you find these words unfamiliar, don't worry!. Because you will get to learn from the best. Just to get you started, I'll give a brief introduction on main topics. 

Let's start with WSO2 ESB Cloud Connectors

Here, the million dollar question would be what is a cloud connector ? right. In a sentence "A connector is a ready made and convenient tool to reach publicly available Web API’s". For instance, we have connectors for SalesForce, Google Spreadsheet, Twitter, etc. These connectors allow you to do rapid and easy integration of different APIs to meet business needs. For instance, you can take data from SalesForce and present it Google SpredSheet in minutes. There is no need to write a single code. In fact, it is just a matter of drag and drop from DevStudio. Furthermore, If you don't like these connectors you can write your own connectors. So, in this tutorial you will get use and write connectors. 

New RESTful Integration capabilities

REST is like the next big thing when it comes to integration. Not only it is simple and easy with its "verbs" and "nouns" but also it gives you the liberty of using fat free message types such as JSON, POX, etc as opposed to Web Services. In this tutorial session you will find out that how easy it is to do integration in RESTful manner using WSO2 ESB. To make your life even more easier, the new versions of ESB has enhanced JSON support such as Natural JSON and JSON path. Thefore, this is a tutorial session that shouldn't be missed.

Store and Forward and advanced integration patterns

Though Store and Forward support has been there for some time. We though of revamping its implementation from scratch to cater the modern needs in integration. Store and Forwarding not only helps you to throttle messages but also to archive guaranteed delivery. With this you can do advance EIPs (Enterprise Integration Pattern) such as DLC (Dead Letter Channel) and many more. Moreover, you will get hands-on experience on new features of Store and Forward and its usage in EIPs.

These are the main focuses of this tutorial session. So get involved and you will start to see a set of whole new possibilities in the space of Integration. This could take your organization to the next level. Remember, this is only about a tutorial session. There are series of interesting sessions lined up in WSO2Con Asia 2014. For more information see WSO2Con Asia 2014 official website.