currently I´m evaluating WSO2 Stratos LIVE as a public PaaS. I did much research but there are still some questions:
1.) Does WSO2 Stratos Live offer a "multi-tenancy-api" to make Java web applications multi-tenant-aware (something like the Google App Engine Namespace API)?
2.) Is the cartridge-based architecture available (like in WSO2 Stratos 2)?
3.) Are there official API documentations / code samples for all the cloud services? I just found blog posts and webinars. But an official api documentation and code samples would be very great (for example how to unse Identity Server for authentication in Java web applications).
4.) Based on WSO2 API Manager deployment on Stratos, I assume that the API manager is not available as cloud-service?
5.) Do I have hosting options on Stratos Live (e.g. Java Version, the country / Data Center where my app will be hosted)?
6.) Does exist a logs-api to access application logs from my application?
7.) Are there apis for data handling (for example Map Reduce, execution of cron jobs, CDN)?
8.) Do I have a local test environment? I know that there are IDE plugins for an easy deployment. But is it possible to test my app with all WSO2 Stratos Live cloud services local on my machine without connecting to the real services?
I know this is a lot but it would be more than helpful if the WSO2 professionals would help me to answer those questions. As I said, I did much research but those 8 questions are still open.
Thanks a lot and best regards
Ben
See the answers in-line.
1.) Does WSO2 Stratos Live offer a "multi-tenancy-api" to make Java web applications multi-tenant-aware (something like the Google App Engine Namespace API)?
Yes. Your web app can be multi-tenanted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lEwm6VzAmo&noredirect=1
http://www.slideshare.net/afkham_azeez/building-a-multitenanted-cloudnative-appserver
2.) Is the cartridge-based architecture available (like in WSO2 Stratos 2)?
Not yet. But our plan is to make Stratos2.0 as the foundation of StratosLive. This will be done after the GA release of Stratos2.0 (it is now in beta stage)
3.) Are there official API documentations / code samples for all the cloud services? I just found blog posts and webinars. But an official api documentation and code samples would be very great (for example how to unse Identity Server for authentication in Java web applications).
All the documents and samples available for WSO2 products are valid for StratosLive. Reason is, we have deployed the very same product in the cloud. We are in the process of filling the documentation gap with regards to StratosLive at the moment.
4.) Based on WSO2 API Manager deployment on Stratos, I assume that the API manager is not available as cloud-service?
Not yet. It will be available in the future.
5.) Do I have hosting options on Stratos Live (e.g. Java Version, the country / Data Center where my app will be hosted)?
No. StratosLive uses shared instances to achieve multi-tenantcy (not like some other PaaSes which uses a JVM per tenant). Therefore, hosting options are not available.
6.) Does exist a logs-api to access application logs from my application?
Yes. We allow the tenants to view system logs and application logs. Unfortunately the API for log viewing is not documented yet.
http://sparkletechthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-distributed-logging-works-in-wso2.html
7.) Are there apis for data handling (for example Map Reduce, execution of cron jobs, CDN)?
Map reduce related tasks can be handled using toolboxes which can be deployed in WSO2 BAM (monitor.stratoslive.wso2.com). Please check the WSO2 BAM2 documentation for more info.
8.) Do I have a local test environment? I know that there are IDE plugins for an easy deployment. But is it possible to test my app with all WSO2 Stratos Live cloud services local on my machine without connecting to the real services?
You can download and use the Stratos local setup which can be found at http://wso2.com/cloud/stratos
Related
How to integrate WSO2 Process center with other WSO2 applications?
Is there any way to do so? Kindly share the documentation regarding this if available.
Thanks.
WSO2 Process Center is a new product which will be released in 2016 Q2. So at the moment there are no official documentation. WSO2 PC will be a center for business process and it will tightly integrate WSO2 Business Process Server (WSO2 BPS) and WSO2 Rules Server (WSO2 BRS). On the hand Process Related Stats can be integrated to WSO2 Data Analytic Server (WSO2 DAS) where as sparks queries will be deployed in the WSO2 DAS.
You can download a milestone pack from WSO2 official web site [1]
[1] http://wso2.com/products/process-center/
WSO2 Process Center provides a complete, end-to-end solution for business process management. WSO2 PC forms the central component of WSO2’s BPM platform by providing centralized storage, governance, process monitoring/analytics, and process improvement support.
It enables users to discover relevant processes and initiate automated processes, domain experts to design processes using different formats as an example define processes in text, pdf, document, etc.
And also provide process owners to monitor existing processes, analyze process history, and identify possibilities of optimization utilizing Data Analytics Server. WSO2 PC offers a Process Explorer app as well as a Process Designer app to add/create new processes.
Please see this videos during recent WSO2Cons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIAeNR59YE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1FcL1yThaM
Halo everybody (maybe Asela? :),
Can anyone guide me how can I implement Oracle Coherence as a Cache provider with WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0 clustered using with WSO2 ELB?
I found some very useful links on that topic, from which I consider this one as a good start: Clustering Identity Server
But I cannot find a way how to find solution for changing Hazelcast cache provider for any other provider.
I also realized, WSO2 is not using javax.caching implementation from JDK (since it was introduced in 1.7 and later), it is using its own based on JSR-107 (from which JSR I suppose Java JDK JCache is originated.
This article shows, that there is a way, how to somehow implement user JSR 107 JCache, but I don't see it configured for whole Identity Server:
WSO2 Multi-tenant Cache: JSR-107 (JCache)
I'm expecting answer which will guide me, what to change or add (for instance to carbon core) and where to setup / configure those changes, to make them global used within WSO2 Identity Server 5.0.0.
I hope it is relevant question and since this Carbon based platform is very rich and configurable, I hope this will be possible with some time invested.
Thank you in advance,
Josef
Coherence supports the real JCache APIs, so if WSO2 uses JCache, it should be easy to integrate Coherence!
I am evaluating WSO2 as potential PAAS platform for delivering multi-tenancy SAAS application to my clients. I know that we can expose JEE based web applications as SAAS applications on WSO2 platform. My question is can we SAASify an application built on .Net or PHP using WSO2 PAAS services. If yes, please let me know what does it take to achieve this. Please point me to any resources if there are any.
Via the WSO2 Stratos cartridge architecture, you can easily plug in any runtime as a service - thus you can create a polyglot cartridge for PHP in WSO2 Private PaaS / Stratos to run PHP applications. This will allow you to use the PaaS features such as multi-tenancy and thus work towards SaaSifying your PHP app.
The following Enterprise Use Case Webinar - Running PHP on Stratos 2.0 shows howto create a PHP cartridge and a demo on running PHP based wordpress.
WSO2 experts
I downloaded the WSO2 AppFactory, but couldn't login into the web console with admin/admin. Has the default password changed?
Regards,
Terry
Please try with the following credentials
Username:admin#admin.com
password:admin
If you just tried with a downloaded 'binary' set-up of WSO2 App Factory; this will only allow you to log in to the Carbon admin console of the App Factory (If you just clicked on and visited the URL, that was printed on the server console). This Carbon admin console does not have any App Factory specific functionality which you might expect [WSO2 Carbon is the underlying platform which is used by all of the WSO2 products].
Since App Factory runs having few other servers alongside (such as WSO2 AS, WSO2 ELB, Jenkins, Redmine etc) this set up that you are running will not provide the same User interfaces or functionality which you have observed within the setup provided with https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com/samlsso .
I just thought to leave this answer, because; you would get disappointed after spending your time expecting the same Application (User Interfaces) available with the online setup (which I have mentioned with the hyperlink) by running the binary setup(wso2appfactory-1.0.0.zip) that you have downloaded from the WSO2 Web site.
I've been looking at WSO2 Carbon as an OSGi application platform providing the following functionality:
Services can be deployed as OSGi components (backend and frontend/UI)
A Service UI components can be hosted (snapped) into the Carbon UI
A Service can use Carbon User Management database for authentication and authorization
Does fuseesb have a similar UI concept?
Using fuse ESB for about 6 months, I'm very happy with it.
Services are easily deployed as OSGi components - these are quite easily configured and deployed as fuse features. Fuse profiles then contain property files that define which features are deployed to your OSGi containers.
Although I haven't used every feature, I haven't seen a similar UI concept for hosting / snapping.
For authentication and authorization there are various approaches - one nice solution is to use Apache zookeeper (a key/value store) as a basis for a simple user management component that can be available to all your services.