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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 ...

This is a recent white paper that I have written on building a Connected Retail IT Architecture using a middleware platform. Here we discuss about the typical structure of a Retail IT system and the common problems that we face when building an agile Retail IT. This provides a reference architecture for any Retail IT system and then I try to realize it with the WSO2 Middleware platform. To become a successful business in the ever-changing retail market, the retail business must have a connected retail IT architecture. This retail IT system should be able to connect with existing legacy systems, services, and data. At the same time, it would need to cater to demanding customer needs, flexibility, and agility in exploring new markets, expanding IT capabilities inside and outside the organization (SaaS), and enhance overall performance of the IT system. This white paper will discuss the importance of creating a connected retail system today and explain how a complete middleware platform c...

Paul and myself will be doing a tutorial on ESB and Enterprise Integration at WSO2Con 2013 .  Our main focus will be on Enterprise Integration and how we can use WSO2 ESB  to solve common integration problems. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS Colombo - Thursday 7th February London - Tuesday 12th February Business success requires seamless information and event flow across departments, customers, partners, and systems. Heterogeneous message formats, protocols, identity tokens, and high message volumes often challenge integration teams. As teams scale Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles of sharing, re-use, and loose coupling across integration participants and interconnect integration endpoints, an enterprise integration blueprint should include a robust and high-performance Enterprise Integration Platform. The Enterprise Service Bus is a core of this platform, enabling interconnection, mediation, management and transformation. Additionally, Registry, Message Broker and Data...