WSO2 Cloud Platform

Last week, WSO2 launched their Cloud Platform, for extending SOA into cloud computing.

Wso2 Cloud Public 2009 11 16

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Apache Asia Roadshow 2009

Apache Asia Roadshow 2009 will hit Colombo from the 3^rd - 5^th of December. You can register for the event here. Don't miss out this opportunity.

Cloud Computing

Here's a very interesting video on cloud computing

Use mail transport in ESB to convert the SOAP message to a plain text mail

Scenario:
Imagine a scenario where you are using the mail transport in ESB. You need to convert the SOAP message to a plain text mail, without any XML in it. This blogpost is written to address it :).

How To:
Following steps will guide you to get your scenario up and running.

1) Uncomment the mail TransportSender and TransportReceiver from axis2.xml

2) Add the following line to axis2.xml's MessageFormatters.

<messageFormatter contentType="text/plain" class="org.apache.axis2.format.PlainTextFormatter"/>

3) Build the SimpleStockQuote service (which is residing inside the samples). Run sample axis2Server.

4) Use the attached proxy configuration.

<!-- Using the mail transport -->
<definitions xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
  <proxy name="StockQuoteProxy" transports="mailto">

      <parameter name="transport.mail.Address">synapse.demo.1@gmail.com</parameter>
      <parameter name="transport.mail.Protocol">pop3</parameter>
      <parameter name="transport.PollInterval">5</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.host">pop.gmail.com</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.port">995</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.user">synapse.demo.1</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.password">mailpassword</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.socketFactory.class">javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.socketFactory.fallback">false</parameter>
      <parameter name="mail.pop3.socketFactory.port">995</parameter>
      <parameter name="transport.mail.ContentType">application/xml</parameter>

      <target>
          <inSequence>
              <property name="senderAddress" expression="get-property('transport', 'From')"/>
              <log level="full">
                  <property name="Sender Address" expression="get-property('senderAddress')"/>
              </log>

              <send>
                  <endpoint>
                      <address uri="http://localhost:9000/services/SimpleStockQuoteService"/>
                  </endpoint>
              </send>
          </inSequence>
          <outSequence>
              <property name="Subject" value="Custom Subject for Response" scope="transport"/>
        <property name="messageType" value="text/plain" scope="axis2-client"/>
 <script language="js"><![CDATA[
                mc.setPayloadXML(<ns:text xmlns:ns="http://ws.apache.org/commons/ns/payload">Plain text received!</ns:text>);
     ]]></script>
              <header name="To" expression="fn:concat('mailto:', get-property('senderAddress'))"/>
              <log level="full">
                  <property name="message" value="Response message"/>
                  <property name="Sender Address" expression="get-property('senderAddress')"/>
              </log>
              <send/>
          </outSequence>
      </target>
      <publishWSDL uri="file:repository/samples/resources/proxy/sample_proxy_1.wsdl"/>
  </proxy>
</definitions>

5) Send an email to synapse.demo.1@gmail.com

6) You will receive the response in plain text.

Exposing a non-secured service with security using ESB

This article explains how to expose a non-secure service as a secured service using WSO2 ESB. The unsecured service is SimpleStockQuoteService. The strategy taken up is to secure SimpleStockQuoteService throught a secured proxy. A proxy service is written to enable username token authentication and logging of messages. Steps specified in the article demonstrates how to get this scenario up and running. [Read the full article for more info]

My article on IBM Developer Works

It was one of my dreams to publish an article in IBM dW. Last week one of my articles got published in the IBM developerWorks. A special thank goes out to Chris Walden (Web Development Editor) of developerWorks who made this happen.

Basketball @ WSO2 : How to Survive

It's been a while since I wrote a blogpost that relates to sports. Since annual basketball tournament at wso2 is coming up next week, I thought it would be the perfect time to write a blogpost on WSO2 basketball. The ideas & views expressed below can be a KnowledgeBase for anyone joining wso2 or newbie who wants to play basketball @ wso2.

Wso2 folks dont have a permanent basketball court to play basketball. Instead they have transformed the car park into a basketball court. It is car-park by day and basketball court by night. We have portable baskeball posts, so we move em to the car-park in the evening. The court is not having the ideal dimensions of a standard basketball court; it is due to the limited space available in the car park.

We started playing basketball @ wso2 around 1 year back and we followed it up with a inter-house basketball tournament, which was a blast. It was a very successful event and everyone enjoyed it a lot(apart from the people who got injured while playing lol). Now 1 year has elapsed since the introduction of basketball to wso2 and IMO I say that we are playing a different flavor of basketball.

Basketball is having several flavors ranging from Streetball to Slamball. Wso2's basketball has evolved into a unique flavor apart from these. I'd say it is a hybrid of both basketball and rugby :D. I'd like to call it RugBBall. Since I said that this would be a KB item, following are some tips to be successful(or survive lol) @ basketball court, during practice sessions.

• You should be able to tolerate elbow shots and slaps, cos these arn't fouls :)

• Dont ever argue with guys on "whether it was a foul or not". You could never win that argument :). Therefore it's better to carry on with the game without arguing.

• After a practice session you'd feel like if you were scratched by a kitten and tackled by a NFL linebacker lol.

Those are the fun facts to know before you enter into the bb court.

I will follow this post up with a pre-tournament analysis of the wso2's inter-house basketball teams. So stay tuned ;) .