"Beginning WSO2 ESB" - A beginner to expert guide for learning WSO2 ESB

I'm glad to announce that my first book "Beginning WSO2 ESB" has published with Apress publications. In this post, I would like to share some of the key highlights of the book. 

Why "Beginning WSO2 ESB"? 

The book 'Beginning WSO2 ESB’ provides a comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of WSO2 ESB and its capabilities, through real-world enterprise integration use cases. Hence this book is well suited for both the readers who are getting started with WSO2 ESB as well as who are already familiar with WSO2 ESB. 

Also, WSO2 ESB has drastically evolved over the last several years and now it's in the 5th generation. There's been a lot of new features added while some of the existing features got deprecated. Therefore, there is an increasing demand to have a central place to understand the new features along with the best practices of using existing features. This book is fully up-to-date with the latest WSO2 ESB 5.0 version. Hence you will learn fully state-of-the-art capabilities of WSO2 ESB and the recommended and proven best practices. 

Use case - oriented learning experience 

One of the easiest ways to understand any given concept is to understand a related example and then dive deep into the theoretical aspects. We extensively practice that approach throughout the entire book. Almost all the concepts are explained through real world use cases and you can try out most of the sample use cases while you read the book. And most of these use cases are inspired from the real world applications of WSO2 ESB. 

Best practices and recommended patterns

Almost all the examples in the book illustrate the most suitable constructs, that you should select to build a given integration scenario and how to design them in the most optimum way. 

Over the years, there have been many enhancements added to the WSO2 ESB and users are really keen to know which is the best approach to building a given integration scenario. Since the book is based on the use case oriented model, the readers can easily understand and directly map and extend the use cases given in the book to the real integration scenario that he/she wants to build. 

Future? 

This book is coming out in an era where some people think that ESB concept is reaching its end of life, owing to the advent of microservices architecture (This universally applies to all ESB vendors). However, in my opinion, ESB as an integration solution will continue to dominate the enterprise integration space for next several years or so. But, the ESBs and Integration Platforms will morph to adopt the new architectural concepts such as microservices and container architecture. Stay tuned for more interesting stuff on this :). 

Acknowledgement 

Before I wrap up this post, I must thank all the people who have helped me in writing and publishing this book. 

First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana who is the founder, CEO, and chief architect of WSO2, for all the guidance that he has provided throughout all these years at WSO2. 

Also, I should be grateful for Apress publications for giving me the opportunity to write a book for them and especially I would like to thank acquisitions editor Pramila Balan for all the support given.  

I'm grateful to Prabath Siriwardana, who gave me the initial idea for writing a book, and for sharing all his experiences on writing a book. Also, I would thank Isuru Udana for all his contribution as the technical reviewer and all the other ESB team members for all their support. I express my gratitude to Selvaratnam Uthaiyashankar and Samisa Abeysinghe for all their help and guidance. 

I’m grateful to my beloved wife Imesha, my parents, and my sister, who are the main driving forces behind all my success. Last but not least, thank you to everyone who supported me in many different ways.

Get your copy! 

"Beginning WSO2 ESB" is available for purchase at all the leading online book retailers including Amazon, Apress, Google Books and Barnes & Nobel.  

If you loved the book and have a minute to spare, I would really appreciate a short review on the page or site where you bought the book. Your help in spreading the word is greatly appreciated.  

Thank You!. 

- Kasun Indrasiri