Cool Innovations by WSO2
I've long held that the WSO2 suite of middleware products is one of the industry's best-kept secrets. But just what is it that makes these products so special? Well, if the mere fact that there exists a functionally comprehensive, 100% Open Source middleware suite isn't remarkable enough, there are plenty of other reasons why IT practitioners should take a good look at WSO2's offerings. I have had the opportunity for a few months now to work closely with the company's engineers and play with their products, using them to build (demo) distributed systems, and this is what I have found. There is significant innovation here that is really cool. There may be even more that I haven't discovered yet. 1. OSGi bundles, functionality "features", and the fluid definition of a "product" (WSO2 has no rigid products, although their brochures list about 12. The truth is that they have hundreds of capability bundles that can be combined with a common core t