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Webinar will examine cloud bursting an application deployment, multi-factor auto-scaling, multi-tenant deployment, and scalable load-balancing using WSO2 Private PaaS
Palo Alto, CA – January 30, 2014 – Increasingly, enterprises seek agile environments to deploy applications quickly onsite or in the cloud, enabling them to run efficiently and scale elastically to meet shifting demands. To help address this demand, WSO2 will examine how to build a lasting enterprise private cloud and optimize application deployment using WSO2 Private PaaS (http://wso2.com/cloud/private-paas/).
The one-hour technical webinar, “Building an Enterprise Cloud with WSO2 Private PaaS,” will be held Thursday, February 6, 2014, from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. For more information, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/02/building-an-enterprise-cloud-with-wso2-private-paas.
Building an Enterprise Cloud
The webinar will begin with an overview of WSO2 Private PaaS, the open source, enterprise-grade private platform as a service (PaaS) solution implemented using the Apache Stratos (incubating) PaaS framework. It also will examine how WSO2 Private PaaS extends fully multi-tenant WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware products (http://wso2.com/products/carbon/)—along with other third-party servers—as cloud services, while introducing other capabilities, such as billing and metering.
Key webinar topics will include:
• An introduction to WSO2 Private PaaS architecture.
• An overview of the cloud bursting application deployment model.
• Multi-factor auto-scaling and multi-tenant deployment best practices.
• Smart policies for running an enterprise cloud.
• How to build a future-proof enterprise cloud.
Leading the webinar will be Pradeep Fernando, associate technical lead, who focuses on the development of WSO2 Carbon. He has contributed to the Apache Software Foundation, working on the Apache Axis2 project. In addition to his product development efforts, Pradeep has provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including QuickStart programs.
About WSO2 Private PaaS
WSO2 Private PaaS (formerly WSO2 Stratos) provides the industry’s most complete, open enterprise-grade platform as a service. It features a cartridge-based architecture that combines support for heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform runtimes with native, secure multi-tenancy.
WSO2 Private PaaS includes the WSO2 PaaS Foundation, which is an instance of the Apache Stratos (incubating) PaaS framework; all pre-integrated, cloud-ready, and fully multi-tenant WSO2 Carbon middleware products; and cartridges for MySQL, PHP and Apache TomCat.
Through the use of jclouds, WSO2 Stratos 2.0 offers the ability to run on almost any infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud, including SUSE Cloud and other OpenStack-based offerings, VMware, Eucalyptus, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
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The new medium release of GdPicture.NET 10.2 all-in-one imaging SDK includes new PDF and barcoding features. An innovative MICR plugin which detects and decodes CMC-7 and E-13B fonts on documents such as checks is also available.
After the launch of the GdPicture MICR SDK Preview (http://www.orpalis.com/labs/micr-engine/), ORPALIS is proud to announce the release of a tool enabling developers to detect and decode, among other features, MICR lines from any structured document such as checks. The MICR Plugin for GdPicture.NET is available with the release of the new medium version of the bestselling and award-winning GdPicture.NET all-in-one imaging SDK version 10.2.
MICR Plugin for GdPicture.NET
MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and is a standard encoding technology in banking industry used mainly for checks.
Our plugin can decode both CMC-7 and E-13B fonts with an extreme accuracy (reaching 99.9% on 300 dpi images) even on poor quality and poorly contrasted images.
The MICR plugin is fast (20 checks per second on Intel Core i7 based computers), AnyCPU (available in 32 bit & 64 bit versions), multi-threaded and at the same time it keeps a low memory usage.
The MICR plugin can also:
- Work on any bit-depth bitmap (color, grayscale and monochrome).
- Automatically repair altered symbols.
- Include symbol size tolerance.
- Detect check codelines by full page layout analysis.
- Automatically detect MICR fonts (no need to set Region of Interest on the document).
- Return recognized characters with confidence level and an alternate set of recognized characters at next-lower level of confidence.
- Allow choosing white-lists of symbols.
- Allow optional setting of the expected number of symbols.
The full description of the MICR Plugin is available on its dedicated page (http://www.gdpicture.com/products/plugins/micr.php) on the GdPicture website.
Other features available in GdPicture.NET version 10.2
New enhancements are also available in the v10.2 in the barcoding (PDF417) and PDF domains in terms of accuracy.
GdPicture.NET 10.2 can be downloaded from the GdPicture website at http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php.
About ORPALIS
ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", which is now a worldwide known and respected leader in imaging technologies. More than 12,000 developers based in over 70 countries include GdPicture components in their applications.
www.orpalis.com / www.gdpicture.com
Contact information
http://www.gdpicture.com/contact.php
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Webinar will examine how to implement common enterprise integration patterns, and integrate with FIX, HL7, SAP, Twitter, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Qpid using WSO2 ESB
Palo Alto, CA – January 29, 2014 – Today, the enterprise service bus (ESB) is at the heart of most enterprise-grade service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments—removing point-to-point dependencies in a system and enabling organizations to build a highly scalable, loosely coupled solution. To facilitate this effort, WSO2 will present a webinar on how to optimize enterprise integration and SOA deployments using WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) (http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus/).
The one-hour technical webinar, “Enterprise Integration with WSO2 ESB,” will be held Wednesday, February 5, 2014, from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. For more information, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/02/enterprise-integration-with-wso2-esb.
Enterprise Integration with WSO2 ESB
The webinar will be led by Prabath Siriwardena, author of the book, “Enterprise Integration with WSO2 ESB.” Prabath will examine the essentials to get started with WSO2 ESB and solve the most common integration problems. He also will cover the most widely used enterprise integration patterns, including content-based router, dynamic router, splitter, aggregator, scatter and gather, publish and subscribe, detour, service chaining, content enricher, and message broker.
Additionally, Prabath will take attendees through how to deploy WSO2 ESB in a production setup and explain how to:
• Implement commonly used enterprise integration patterns with WSO2 ESB.
• Integrate WSO2 ESB with Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Qpid Message Brokers.
• Integrate with WSO2 ESB with business messaging systems using standards, such as the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol and Health Level Seven (HL7) interface.
• Connect an SAP system to a wider SOA infrastructure from WSO2 ESB.
• Connect to Twitter from WSO2 ESB.
Prabath Siriwardena, WSO2 director of security, previously chaired the WSO2 Integration Technologies Management Committee. He is a member of the OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) Technical Committee (TC), OASIS XACML TC, and OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC. Prabath is also a member of the Apache Axis Project Management Committee (PMC). He has delivered talks at numerous international conferences.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
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Game Cloud Includes Integration with Unity Engine, Powerful Cloud Backend, Customizable Game Analytics, Monetization Channels, User Management & Global Publishing Services
SAN MATEO, CA and TOKYO, JAPAN--(Marketwired - Jan 28, 2014) - Kii, an end-to-end partner for mobile developers, today announced the official launch of Game Cloud, its new mobile backend platform service for developers and gaming studios to build, distribute, and monetize their games. Ideal for games of all genres, especially Unity based games (through Kii's integrated Unity SDK),
Game Cloud enables developers to turn their game ideas into full-fledged businesses with out-of-the-box services that include cloud backend, player management, social integrations, usage analytics, monetization channels, and publishing/promotion in China and Japan, the largest and best monetized markets respectively for mobile games.
Game Cloud represents Kii's focus to become the leading backend service for developers who want to build mobile games for a global audience. To learn more about Game Cloud, visit: http://en.kii.com/develop/gamecloud.
As part of that focus, Kii is also announcing "Kii to Unity Game Contest," a mobile game development contest with a $10,000 cash prize. New games created in Unity using Game Cloud services submitted by Monday, April 28, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. PT are eligible to win. In addition to the cash prize, the winner will get one year for free Kii to China distribution service. The five finalists will enjoy promotion on Kii's blog and Twitter. Full details to the contest are available on the Kii blog: http://blog.kii.com/?p=2488.
"We're doubling down on the huge gaming development and distribution opportunities in mobile. According to industry analysts, Asia and Europe combined could take more than 80 percent of the global revenue share for mobile and online games - a market projected to be $60B by 2017," said Masanari Arai, founder and CEO, Kii. "Our Game Cloud service is best positioned as the platform for both independent developers and gaming studios who not only want to build games for global audiences, but also want to succeed in Asia. Developers who don't capture this market of Asian mobile gamers will miss out on a huge growth opportunity."
Game Cloud features:
- Cloud based user and data management: Developers can use Game Cloud to handle player log-ins and store data and objects in key value store.
- Most common "middleware" components: social integration, push, geo-location are used by most games and available out of the box with Game Cloud.
- Customizable analytics for mobile games: Game Cloud analytics enable game developers to create and monitor custom metrics unique to their game that help them understand player behavior to optimize game experience and monetization.
- Globally distributed backend: Developers can deploy games on Game Cloud hosted in US, Japan or behind China's "Great Firewall" to ensure stable, reliable app performance.
- Monetization channels: Developers can tap into Kii's multiple ad networks and start monetizing on their mobile game from day one with the Kii Ads SDK.
- Expanded distribution services for China and Japan: Through Kii to China, developers can distribute their games to the world's largest smartphone market; through Kii's handset and carrier partnerships in Japan, they can also distribute their Unity-based games to the world's best monetized mobile gaming market.
"Kii provides a solid foundation and a very complete solution for developers to create engaging games with scalable and easy to manage backends," said David Helgason, CEO, Unity Technologies. "Mobile game developers love what they do, and they want to create successful games. We're excited to see how a $10,000 cash prize and free distribution to China will motivate them even further."
More full contest details, visit: http://blog.kii.com/?p=2488
About Kii:
Kii provides end-to-end partnerships to mobile developers who want to maximize revenue, gain global distribution, and turn their apps into full-time businesses. It offers a unique combination of cloud technology and distribution services, along with an early stage investment partnership fund designed to help mobile app developers monetize and grow their business, and marketing/distribution in Japan, China, and many other large mobile markets. Led by innovators in mobile and cloud-related technology, Kii is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with offices in San Mateo, California, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, China For more information please visit us at http://www.kii.com or follow us on Twitter @kiicorp
CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact:
Zach Servideo and Vanessa Camones
theMIX agency for Kii
Email Contact
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DiscountASP.NET, a leading innovator in hosting solutions for Microsoft developers, announces the launch of managed Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 hosting. Managed TFS 2013 is available in both US-based and UK-based data centers.
Managed TFS hosting provides customers with their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM that is not shared with any other customer. The Managed TFS solution is fully managed and DiscountASP.NET offers both the TFS Basic configuration and the TFS Full configuration that includes SharePoint and Reporting. The Managed TFS service also supports server-side customization, such as third-party software installations that are not possible with in a shared TFS hosting scenario.
“Microsoft is picking up the pace for technology releases. It was a little over a year ago when we launched TFS 2012 and now we are introducing Managed TFS 2013 solutions.” said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. “Our Managed TFS hosting service allows development teams to stop managing their ALM infrastructure and focus on software development.”
The TFS hosting solution is fully managed and DiscountASP.NET tests and handles TFS updates. DiscountASP.NET also offers TFS migration and upgrade services for existing TFS hosting customers and for businesses looking to migrate from their on-premises TFS installation to hosted TFS solutions.
For more information and for quote requests, visit http://www.discountasp.net/tfs
About DiscountASP.NET:
DiscountASP.NET is a leader in hosting solutions for Microsoft developers. DiscountASP.NET is a Microsoft Gold Partner who offers both shared and managed TFS hosting solutions. As a leader in cutting-edge ASP.NET web hosting, DiscountASP.NET supports the latest Microsoft web stack. Through strong word-of-mouth and their commitment to ASP.NET developers, DiscountASP.NET has become the choice for ASP.NET web hosting and hosted TFS. For more information, visit http://www.DiscountASP.NET.
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New case study discusses how WSO2 strategic partner Yenlo implemented WSO2 ESB along with other WSO2 Carbon middleware to help SEIN more effectively exchange data among clinics, insurers, and partners
Palo Alto, CA – January 27, 2014 – WSO2 today announced that The Epilepsy Institutes of the Netherlands Foundation (Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, or SEIN), has implemented WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware in combination with SUSE Linux to improve its information flow and integrate processes internally and externally with other organizations in the healthcare industry. The SEIN solution, which was implemented by WSO2 strategic partner Yenlo, includes WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB), WSO2 API Manager (WSO2 API), and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM).
The implementation was outlined in a new case study from WSO2, which can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/casestudies/epilepsy-center-improves-sharing-of-patient-data-with-wso2-carbon
Integrating Systems in the Highly Regulated Healthcare Industry
Based in Heemstede, the Netherlands, SEIN specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, support and research of epilepsy through its three clinical centers, 12 outpatient clinics, and other residential and special education facilities throughout the country. To perform the highly regulated exchange of information that allows SEIN to carry on its work—for example, sharing data with hospitals and insurance companies—SEIN asked Yenlo, WSO2’s world-wide implementation partner, to develop a solution for improving information flow and integrating processes.
The new case study from WSO2 examines the integration challenges facing SEIN, as well as the solution architecture Yenlo implemented for SEIN. Among the topics covered in the case study are:
• The decision factors for deploying a 100% open source integration platform based on WSO2 ESB and SUSE Linux.
• How the implementation enables SEIN to run critical business processes and manage patient information according to the requirements of the Health Level Seven (HL7) standard.
• The role of WSO2 ESB in SEIN’s service-oriented architecture (SOA), serving as the central backbone for mediation and transformation.
• The role of WSO2 API Manager in publishing APIs and managing developers’ access.
• The use of WSO2 BAM to monitor the SEIN system’s performance metrics.
“The WSO2-SUSE combination implemented for us by Yenlo provides a centralized platform for exchanging data by integrating previously disparate information storage systems,” said Jean Willem Barzilay, chairman of the board of directors and responsible for all business units within SEIN. “Moreover, standardizing on open source software naturally entails cost reduction. From day one we have benefited from the user friendly solutions of WSO2 and SUSE.”
“We knew at the start that we wanted to build a solution for SEIN that could grow and adapt to its changing needs, while still adhering to strict requirements for the exchange of healthcare data,” said Ruben van der Zwan, CEO of Yenlo. “Using WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and SUSE Linux, we’ve met these goals, and today SEIN has a platform that offers the flexibility and ease of integration to address whatever the future may bring.”
“As one of the world’s leading institutes for the treatment and research of epilepsy, SEIN regularly coordinates processes with other healthcare organizations,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “We are thrilled by the success of Yenlo and SEIN in using our WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and SUSE Linux to securely integrate internal and third-party systems to facilitate SEIN’s online collaboration. It highlights the value of an open source, open standards approach to integrating the many systems that link processes across an enterprise’s ecosystem.”
About SEIN
The Epilepsy Institutes of the Netherlands Foundation (Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, or SEIN) is a center of expertise for people with epilepsy and related disorders. SEIN specializes in diagnosis, treatment, support and research and from epilepsy. To make this possible, SEIN has three clinical centers, 12 outpatient clinics, residential facilities, special education and sleep centers. For more information, visit http://www.sein.nl.
About Yenlo
Founded in 2007, Yenlo is a Dutch-based software development and consulting company focused on middleware and business process management. Yenlo’s founders, who still act as members of the team, have an accumulated experience of over 35 years in IT with in-depth architectural knowledge in the areas of service-oriented computing, business process management and cloud computing. Working with a team of senior professionals, they deliver solutions to address the current and future business challenges on a global, worldwide scale. For more information, visit http://www.yenlo.com.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Yenlo opens four new offices in four countries
Hazerswoude-Rijndijk (Netherlands) and Palo Alto, CA, USA 21st January 2014 – Yenlo and WSO2 today announced that they have deepened their partnership to form a strategic alliance. Through the alliance, Yenlo and WSO2 will expand the companies’ winning combination of technology and services to more customers worldwide.
WSO2 delivers the only complete, 100% open source enterprise middleware platform that runs both on servers and in the cloud. Yenlo brings more than 15 years of expertise in service-oriented solutions for enterprise applications, middleware and database platforms for traditional servers, private clouds, and public clouds. The strategic alliance builds on the partnership that Yenlo and WSO2 first established in 2012, which gives the growing base of worldwide customers using WSO2’s award-winning middleware the ability to take advantage of best-in-class IT solutions and services from Yenlo.
Joint offerings
As part of the strategic alliance, WSO2 and Yenlo will deliver new joint solutions, training programs, and consulting. Some of the initial offerings are:
• WSO2 workshop tour (http://www.yenlo.com/en/wso2-suse-yenlo-workshop/) across major cities in Europe and USA.
• Worldwide WSO2 implementation and product support.
• Worldwide 24/7 managed services for WSO2 environments.
• Digilink (ebMS) adaptor for secure, reliable messaging between governments and software-as-a-service (SaaS) and appliances.
• HL7v3 adapter for WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for the healthcare market.
• Yenlo DAY-SAAS solution deployed on WSO2 Private PaaS (formerly WSO2 Stratos).
• Collaboration on the Apache Stratos project (incubating) for middleware platform-as-a-service.
Additionally, Yenlo will expand its use of the WSO2 platform to develop and implement applications. Today, the WSO2 platform includes more than 20 products and technology solutions for building and integrating applications on-premises, in the cloud, and across mobile devices. More detail on the strategic alliance can be found at http://wso2.com/partners/yenlo.
“Yenlo's excellence in implementing WSO2 projects for customers has contributed to the growing adoption of WSO2’s platform,” said Jonathan Marsh, WSO2 vice president of business development. “Our strategic alliance with Yenlo builds on this success by bringing Yenlo’s services to more of our global customers and fostering the development of innovative new solutions to meet the demands of enterprises around the world.”
Customers can focus on their business
“We see the alliance develop towards a ‘no concerns about ICT’ attitude to our customers,” said Nevlynn Janssen, Yenlo vice president of global marketing, partnerships and alliances. “We can help our mutual customers by designing, developing, implementing, supporting and maintaining their complete infrastructure so they can fully focus on their core business.”
Marsh added, “The strategic alliance with Yenlo provides customers with the assurance they are doing business with a fully certified and knowledgeable partner that always has direct access to our company and developers.”
The advantages of a Yenlo-WSO2 implementation are examined in a new case study about mutual customer The Epilepsy Institutes of the Netherlands Foundation (Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland, or SEIN). It can be downloaded at http://wso2.com/casestudies/epilepsy-center-improves-sharing-of-patient-data-with-wso2-carbon.
New offices, new markets
In January 2014, Yenlo will open offices in Brussels, Cologne, London and San Francisco. Through the strategic alliance, WSO2 customers in the United States and more countries throughout Europe will now have access to solutions and consulting provided by the Yenlo Managed Services team.
”We see a growing demand for our services and for WSO2 technology solutions as factors fueling our rapid global expansion,” Janssen explains. “Organizations want to integrate their information systems to gain the agility they need to react as fast as possible to ever-changing market demands. In this way our customers can use their ICT as a unique selling proposition and provide their customers with the ability to easily and quickly deliver new services.”
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About Yenlo
Yenlo is an ICT services provider with focus on middleware for process integration and business process management. Yenlo takes concerns about ICT away. Therefore Yenlo is specialized in enterprise architecture, software development and 24/7 managed services. Yenlo is the developer of the ebMS adapter for the WSO2 enterprise service bus that handles millions of transactions between government agencies in an extreme fast, reliable and secure way. Yenlo uses Design & Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO), which is an enterprise modeling methodology for transaction modeling, analyzing and representing business processes. Yenlo has partnerships with SUSE, Oracle and WSO2. More information: http://www.yenlo.com or communities on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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Webinar will explore how IT professionals can integrate build systems, generate deployable artifacts, and develop, test and manage enterprise applications with WSO2 Developer Studio
Palo Alto, CA – January 23, 2014 – IT developers face a dual challenge as they are tasked with practicing agile development while managing a growing roster of tools to support the application life cycle. To help developers address this challenge, WSO2 will present a webinar on how to optimize enterprise application development and management using the WSO2 Developer Studio (http://wso2.com/products/developer-studio/) integrated development environment (IDE).
WSO2 Developer Studio is the first IDE that lets developers write an application once and then deploy it on servers, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. It also enables developers to integrate popular build systems, such as Apache Maven, and continuous integration (CI) build tools, including Hudson, Jenkins and Bamboo.
The interactive session, “Enterprise Application Development and Best Practices with WSO2 Developer Studio,” will be held Thursday, January 30, 2013, from 9 a.m. – 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/enterprise-application-development-and-best-practices-with-wso2-developer-studio for more information.
Using WSO2 Developer Studio to Develop Enterprise Applications
The webinar will demonstrate how to build an application using tools within WSO2 Developer Studio to take advantage of WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware products, such as WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB), WSO2 Data Services Server, and WSO2 Application Server.
begin with an overview of how IT professionals can take advantage of WSO2 tools, such as the, to optimize enterprise application best practices. The session then will explore how WSO2 Developer Studio can be used to strengthen application development. Key topics will include:
• Using WSO2 Developer Studio to create an enterprise application development environment.
• Testing an application with WSO2 servers using WSO2 Developer Studio.
• Debugging applications.
• Building and deploying created artifacts with Apache Maven.
Jointly conducting the webinar will be Asanka Sanjeewa and Viraj Rajaguru. Both presenters are WSO2 software engineers on the WSO2 Developer Studio team, who focus on developing the ESB graphical composition tool in the IDE.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
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WSO2’s Eclipse-based IDE lets IT professionals develop, debug and deploy composite applications and Web services on-premises and in the cloud from one environment
Palo Alto, CA – January 23, 2014 – More enterprises are deploying their composite applications and Web services both on servers and in the cloud. In the process, they often face a dizzying array of tools required to support different deployment scenarios, adding complexity and redundancy to IT projects. By contrast, the WSO2 Developer Studio (http://wso2.com/products/developer-studio/) integrated development environment (IDE) uniquely enables developers to write an application once and then deploy it on servers, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Today, WSO2 builds on these capabilities with the availability of WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5.
The Eclipse-based WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 IDE adds significant new functionality to facilitate cloud integration using the connectors recently launched with WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) 4.8, as well as support application life-cycle management (ALM) and DevOps with tooling for WSO2 App Factory and enhanced Apache Maven integration. The latest release of WSO2 Developer Studio also enhances JavaScript development, support for development using popular SOAP and REST APIs, and Web services security.
Server and Cloud Deployment from One IDE
Version 3.5 builds on WSO2 Developer Studio 3.1, which provides the tools for creating service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications, RESTful services, and composite applications based on the cloud-enabled WSO2 Carbon (http://wso2.com/products/carbon/) platform. With WSO2’s IDE, developers can create a Carbon Application (C-App) that includes services running on multiple WSO2 servers—for example WSO2 ESB, WSO2 Governance Registry, and WSO2 Application Server. After it is tested, the C-App then can be deployed into production on servers or in the cloud using a WSO2 Carbon Archive (CAR).
“As more of our Global 1000 customers implement their applications and services across a range of on-premises and cloud deployment models, WSO2 Developer Studio has become their IDE of choice to facilitate these deployments,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “Version 3.5 of WSO2 Developer Studio builds on our commitment to support the demands facing these enterprises by providing tooling that brings a new level of ease in cloud integration, enables more robust ALM and DevOps, and enhances the experiences of developers in using their preferred languages and APIs.”
Richer Integration Tooling for WSO2 ESB
WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 adds two significant capabilities that enable developers simplify their cloud integration and take advantage of popular WSO2 ESB functions within the IDE.
Cloud integration via connectors – with version 3.5, WSO2 Developer Studio adds tooling to help developers leverage the connectors recently introduced with WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus 4.8, including Salesforce.com, Google Spreadsheets, Twilio, Twitter, and JIRA. The tooling also supports connectors that are custom-built by WSO2 ESB consumers using the WSO2 connector kit. These connectors provide the foundation for both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-enterprise integrations, while the tooling automates much of the process, eliminating hours of coding.
Developers can import the connector they want to use into WSO2 Developer Studio, which then provides the list of the connector’s operations on the mediator palette being used in the WSO2 ESB developer project. From there, developers can click on a desired option and drop it into the flow. Developers can combine multiple operations from multiple connectors along the request, response, and error paths, and the ordering of the connector operations can correspond to the desired business logic. Additionally, connector operations can be combined with the regular mediators in a mediation flow to fine-tune the business logic processing.
User interface enhancements to the ESB graphical editor facilitate the development mediation flows. A new visual tooling icon design helps developers to pick the right mediator while designing the ESB flow with minimal effort. The shape, color and the picture of the icon help developers pick mediators at a glance, removing the need to memorize mediator details. The icons also enable developers and other stakeholders to understand the sequences of proxy services at a glance, without having to read lengthy documentation. Finally, smooth movement and alignment of the icons along the sequences result in a clean layout that further enhances the readability of the resulting ESB flow design.
Support for ALM and DevOps
WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 strengthens support for ALM and DevOps with new tooling for WSO2 App Factory and enhanced Apache Maven integration.
Complete tooling support for WSO2 App Factory facilitates the ability to manage the application development life cycle. A shared, self-service, multi-tenant and elastic enterprise DevOps platform, WSO2 App Factory empowers teams to collaboratively create, develop and deploy enterprise applications into cloud environments. New tooling in WSO2 Developer 3.5 provides the ability to check in, checkout, deploy and view build logs of a WSO2 App Factory application inside a single perspective (an Eclipse project type visualization). As a result, developers can focus on the development of business logic, without having to switch across perspectives.
Integration with Apache Maven, the open source build manager for Java projects, enables teams to automate builds with Maven, saving both developer and DevOps cycles. WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 enhances this integration with performance enhancements to existing Maven plugins. It also adds new Maven plugins for recently introduced projects, including a new quality of service (QoS) Maven plug-in, which builds and packages a QoS descriptor for services with Maven, and Jaggery, a pure JavaScript server-side scripting engine.
Enhanced Support for JavaScript, SOAP and REST APIs, and Web Service Security
With version 3.5, WSO2 Developer Studio enhances tooling for application and Web service development, as well as strengthening Web services security.
JavaScript development is streamlined with three new capabilities in the WSO2 Developer Studio Editor supporting the Jaggery JavaScript server-side scripting engine. First, syntax error checking frees developers from having to check the documentation to find the right syntax. Second, Jaggery-related code assistance reduces errors in development, which can be carried over into deployment. Finally, Jaggery debugger integration allows users to easily debug, locate and fix issues they encounter in Jaggery applications.
Enhanced support for JAX-WS JAX-RS and Axis2 translates into enhanced service implementation models using the preferred APIs in the Java world for SOAP and REST style services.
Web services security is enhanced in WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 with the addition of quality of service (QoS) enforcement. As a result, DevOps professionals no longer have to worry about accidentally deploying unsecured services into production.
Availability and Support
WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 is available today both as a standalone Eclipse-based product and as a set of Eclipse plug-ins. Like all WSO2 middleware products, it is a fully open source solution that does not carry any licensing fees. It is released under the Apache License 2.0 and Eclipse Public License. WSO2 offers a range of service and support options for WSO2 Developer Studio, including development support.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Webinar will examine how API architects can take advantage of the OAuth reference architecture in WSO2 API Manager to implement API management with robust security
Palo Alto, CA – January 22, 2014 – Growing demand to use the OAuth open authentication standard is challenging API architects to build robust security architectures with existing security standards and heterogeneous systems and sub-systems. To support this requirement, WSO2 will present a webinar on how to take advantage of the OAuth reference architecture available with WSO2 API Manager (http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/).
The one-hour technical webinar, “OAuth Based Reference Architecture for API Management,” will be held Wednesday, January 29, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/oauth-based-reference-architecture-for-api-management.
How OAuth Fits into API Management
The webinar will begin with a review of the OAuth open authentication standard, which has gained popularity for its ability to let users share content stored on one site with another site without having to share all their access permissions. This will be followed by a discussion of the OAuth reference architecture available with WSO2 API Manager, which enables secure authorization of subscribed APIs via the OAuth 2.0 key model and supports the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant. Key topics will include:
• OAuth model
• OAuth support in WSO2 API Manager
• Application development and OAuth
• Future direction of WSO2 API Manager in supporting OAuth
About the Presenter
Leading the webinar will be Sumedha Rubasinghe, WSO2 senior software architect, who focuses on development of the WSO2 Carbon Core, WSO2 Data Services, WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, and WSO2 API Manager. He also has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements. Additionally, Sumedha is an active committer on the Apache Axis2 project.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
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Webinar will examine how to use WSO2 Connectors in WSO2 ESB 4.8 to optimize cloud-cloud and cloud-enterprise integrations while eliminating the need to learn complex APIs
Palo Alto, CA – January 21, 2014 – Increasingly, software as a service (SaaS) and other cloud services are demanding greater integration between enterprises and cloud platforms. Additionally, enterprises often require these integrations to work between different Web APIs such as SalesForce, SAP, Google spreadsheets, and more. WSO2 will conduct a webinar to examine how enterprises can support these various integration scenarios using WSO2 Connectors, which recently launched with WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus/) (WSO2 ESB) 4.8.
The one-hour technical webinar, “Enterprise Use Case Webinar: Connectors for the New Enterprise with WSO2 ESB 4.8,” will be held Tuesday, January 28, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/connector-integration-with-wso2-esb.
Optimizing New Enterprise Integrations with WSO2 ESB 4.8
The webinar will begin with a review of WSO2 ESB and how its architecture and core capabilities support a wide breadth of formats, empowering users to handle mission-critical applications and legacy systems without complex code or brittle point-to-point integration. The session then will examine the WSO2 Connector Kit and the Connector architecture, as well as present enterprise use cases for effectively reaching publicly available Web APIs such as SalesForce, SAP, Google spreadsheets, Twilio, Twitter, and JIRA using the WSO2 Connectors available today.
Additionally, the webinar will explore new dynamic tooling support available for WSO2 Connectors with the forthcoming release of the WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 integrated development environment (IDE). Using WSO2 Developer Studio (http://wso2.com/products/developer-studio/), developers can point and click to incorporate Connectors into an ESB workflow, saving hours of manual coding.
About the Presenters
Jointly leading the webinar will be two members of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus team: Malaka Silva, WSO2 senior technical lead, and Kasun Indrasiri, WSO2 software architect. In addition to their product development efforts, both have provided technology consulting on customer engagements, from QuickStart programs to solutions for integrating Web services, SAP, FIX, and mobile services. Kasun is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), serving as a Project Management Committee (PMC) member and committer for the Apache Synapse open source ESB project. Malaka is an active member of the Sri Lanka Salesforce developer group.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and FriendFeed.
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Tel-Aviv, January 20, 2014 – Typemock, (http:
Uninterrupted development flow is at the heart of this version release. With FastFix, the relevant test is "pinned" for debugging, while the status of all tests is visible as well – no need to switch between files and views. This eradicates time-consuming navigation, expediting bug-fixing. In addition, enhanced SmartRunner capabilities allow for slow integration tests to run during computer idle time while fast unit tests run immediately. Another productivity booster is the new Test Preview window that eliminates unnecessary navigation, showing the test-code on the same screen as the code under test.
In addition, the new version has improved productivity for faster development flow with enhanced usability features, including: new shortcuts, updated menus, highlighting capabilities and easier navigation. V7.4.3 also supports the newly released Visual Studio 2013 as well as all other leading development tools, making Typemock Isolator the best-in-market unit testing tool and mocking framework available today.
A free trial of Typemock Isolator Complete V7.4.3 is available here:http:
Automated unit testing minimizes bugs, especially regression bugs, in production code, saves development hours, makes it easier & cheaper to change and refactor code across the entire PLC; it also substantially improves code design, especially with Test-Driven Development. Typemock Isolator integrates with Visual Studio and leading developer and server tools, including TFS 2012, and provides more coverage with a powerful mocking framework that supports testing untestable code, such as legacy code.
Eli Lopian, founder of Typemock said: "The release of Isolator V7.4.3 marks Typemock continued leadership of the automated unit testing market. We are constantly adding to Isolator unique productivity-enhancing features, specifically aimed at helping developers work faster & better, preventing redundant QA & debugging. Automating processes is the basis of saving valuable developer work hours, by having previously manual labor done by the computer, allowing developers to concentrate on actual coding: Typemock Isolator V7.4.3 enables them to do exactly that."
For more information on Typemock Isolator V7.4.3 please visithttp:
About Typemock
Typemock was conceived in 2005 to help programmers become agile through easy unit testing. Since the launch of the first version of Typemock Isolator in 2006, thousands of companies around the world found that using Typemock solutions substantially improve code quality, minimizing regression bugs, thus shortening development & QA cycles and keeping code flexible and agile throughout the entire PLC. Typemock customers come from a wide range of sectors – such as defense, medical, and finance – that demand exceptionally high standards of quality and minimum bugs.
Typemock is a privately funded company.
See www.typemock.com
Twitter: @typemock
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Winners will be honored in San Francisco on February 24, 2014 during the annual awards dinner and presentation
Palo Alto, CA – January 16, 2014 – WSO2 announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, has named WSO2 API Manager (http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/) as a finalist for the 10th Annual 2014 Global Excellence Awards in the API (Application Programming Interface) Management and Security category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.
WSO2 API Manager is the first 100% open source API management product combining easy, managed API access, API governance, and analysis. It empowers API publishers with complete API lifecycle governance for creating, publishing, deprecating and retiring APIs—supported by OAuth 2.0 authentication, key credential management, and credential mediation. Providing the first API Store, it lets enterprises set up an Apple or Google Marketplace-like store for developers to subscribe to and consume APIs, including self-service key generation. Designed for robust scalability, WSO2 API Manager is built on the same WSO2 technology powering global enterprises, including a Global 1000 company (http://wso2.com/casestudies/ebay-uses-100-open-source-wso2-esb-to-process-more-than-1-billion-transactions-per-day/) that is handling more than 1 billion API calls per day.
Significantly, WSO2 API Manager is the first API management product with full inherent multi-tenancy, so the same software can run on servers, as a virtual machine, in either a public or private platform as a service (PaaS), or hybrid cloud. It also enables federated access to APIs across multiple entities to manage isolation between departments, partners or development groups.
Other key features include:
• Support for SOAP, REST, JSON and XML-style APIs.
• Secure authorization of subscribed APIs via the OAuth 2.0 key model plus support for the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant.
• Single sign-on via the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
• Throttling and rate limiting based on API key, protecting against denial of service (DOS) attacks and supporting management of service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Ability to revoke access tokens and restrict API access tokens to domains and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
• Capabilities for blocking a subscription and restricting a complete application.
• Analytics and metrics support decision-making and enforce SLA policies.
• Ability to select either or both HTTP and HTTPS as an API’s endpoints as the API is being created.
“We are honored have our WSO2 API Manager product named by Info Security Products Guide as a finalist in the API Management and Security category,” said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO. “We believe this recognition from the highly regarded Info Security Products Guide further validates our commitment to reinventing software around open source and open standards to meet enterprises’ real-world API management, governance and security needs.”
About Info Security Products Guide Awards
SVUS Awards organized by Silicon Valley Communications are conferred in four annual award programs: The Info Security’s Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry’s Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide’s Best Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including people behind them, the products, performance, PR and marketing. To learn more, visit www.svusawards.com.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Webinar will explore how to take advantage of Connectors for WSO2 ESB, ALM with WSO2 App Factory, Apache Maven integration and more with WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5
Palo Alto, CA – January 15, 2014 – Too often, developers face additional complexity created by the need to use multiple development tools to support different deployment scenarios within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). WSO2 will present a webinar on how to address this challenge using new features in WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5, the industry’s first integrated developer environment (IDE) that enables developers to write an application once and then deploy it on servers, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.
The interactive session, “Product Release Webinar – WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5,” will be held Thursday, January 23 2013, from 9 a.m.-10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. For more information, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/product-release-webinar-wso2-developer-studio.
Using WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5 to Facilitate Integration, ALM and More
The webinar will begin with an overview of the WSO2 Developer Studio (http://wso2.com/products/developer-studio/) architecture and core capabilities for developing, deploying, testing and debugging composite applications based on the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform (http://wso2.com/products/carbon/) and WSO2 Private PaaS (http://wso2.com/cloud/private-paas/). Also covered will be how to expose data as a service in a few clicks and manage resources through WSO2 Developer Studio.
The session then will explore how to take advantage of new capabilities in the soon-to-be-released WSO2 Developer Studio 3.5, including:
• Improved enterprise service bus (ESB) graphical editor to facilitate developing mediation flows.
• Use of recently introduced WSO2 Connectors in WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus 4.8 to build integrations.
• Complete tooling support for managing the application development life cycle with WSO2 App Factory (http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/)—providing the ability to check in, checkout, deploy and view build logs of a WSO2 App Factory application inside a single perspective.
• Integration with Apache Maven, the open source build manager for Java projects.
• Web service development with JAX-WS JAX-RS and Axis2.
• Enhanced security for Web services.
About the Presenters
Jointly presenting the webinar will be WSO2 Associate Technical Lead Harshana Martin and WSO2 Software Engineer Jasintha Dassanayaka. Harshana and Jasintha focus on the development of WSO2 Developer Studio. Additionally, the both have provided technology consulting on customer engagements, including WSO2 QuickStart programs. Harshana is a committer for the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF) project, and Jasintha is a contributor to the ECF project.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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DataNumen has released DataNumen SQL Recovery version 2.1, a Windows application that repairs corrupted or damaged .MDF and .NDF files created by Microsoft SQL Server and similar software products. Improvements in version 2.1 include a dramatic reduction in memory utilized during the file recovery process, a significant improvement in file recovery speed, and support for SQL Server 2014.
Microsoft´s SQL Server software includes several tools to prevent data corruption, including snapshot replication, transactional replication, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, failover clustering, and database mirroring. Sometimes, however, Microsoft´s built-in utilities are not able to prevent .MDF files and their associated .NDF files from becoming corrupt. Using advanced proprietary technologies to scan the damaged database files, DataNumen SQL Recovery recovers as many files as possible, and minimizes data loss.
Unlike most data recovery software, the demo version of DataNumen SQL Recovery will scan the damaged .MDF and .NDF files and identify exactly the information that it can recover. Before purchasing the SQL recovery software, users will be able to view all of the recovered contents in a preview window, and know exactly how successful their data recovery efforts will be when they install the full version of the application. In addition, DataNumen will refund a customer´s order if any competitive SQL data recovery program can recover more data than DataNumen SQL Recovery. The software works with all modern versions of SQL files, including files created by SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014.
The software repairs both the structure and data in the SQL tables. With the exception of XML data, DataNumen SQL Recovery repairs all aspects of a damaged SQL database. The application recovers sparse columns, deleted records, and SQL files as large as 16TB. In addition to creating databases in .MDF format, the software can also create a plain text file containing SQL statements that can reconstruct the database.
Registered users can run the software in batch mode to fix any number of damaged SQL files. DataNumen SQL Recovery works with modern drives as well as older media such as CDROMs, floppy disks, and Zip disks.
Database administrators and law enforcement officials use DataNumen SQL Recovery as a forensic tool to identify and repair damaged SQL files. The software is fully integrated with the Windows Explorer context (right-click) menu, allowing users to initiate the repair process quickly and easily. Drag and drop operations are also supported.
DataNumen SQL Recovery version 2.1 runs under Windows XP/Vista/7/8 as well as Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, and costs $299.95(US) for a single-user license. Multi-user discounts are available. For more information, visit http://www.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/
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Product page: http://www.datanumen.com/sql-recovery/
Company website: www.datanumen.com
About
Founded in 2001, DataNumen, Inc. is recognized as a world leader in data recovery technologies. In addition to DataNumen SQL Recovery, the company offers data recovery software for Oracle, Access, and .DBF databases. DataNumen also markets data recovery programs for Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and Outlook Express, RAR, PDF, and more than a dozen other applications. DataNumen´s customers include AT&T Global Network Services, General Electric Co., IBM, HP, Dell Inc., Motorola Inc., The Procter & Gamble Co., FedEx Corp., Xerox Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and many more businesses and institutions worldwide.
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Program Verification Systems announces its new product, CppCat. A plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio, this tool detects many errors that standard debug solutions often miss. Based on the acknowledged PVS-Studio static code analyzer, CppCat inherits its advantages and delivers hassle free debugging in the most convenient form and with very affordable price tag.
Static code analysis is an admitted debugging method that effectively allows revealing and eliminating many problems in a source code. Unfortunately, the build-in debuggers cannot always provide high-quality detection of logical errors, misprints or incorrect use of typical library procedures, which are definitely among the most hard to track bugs.
CppCat, a spiritual heir to Program Verification Systems´ award-winning PVS-Studio, integrates to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013 and performs efficient debugging of C/C++ programs. Being a static code analyzer, this tool is a Microsoft Visual Studio plugin, and therefore it provides a programmer with a quick way to locate errors in the code in addition to those highlighted by the compiler.
The main advantage of the plugin is 100% hands-free functioning. This means, whenever a given file is recompiled, CppCat automatically launches the check for that file. At the same time it allows to analyze the entire code of the application for errors and potentially erroneous fragments.
"CppCat is fast, powerful and extremely affordable. For $250, not only does a developer get a full-featured and easy to use debug solution, but he also receives a bug-free reliable code", says Evgeniy Ryzhkov, General Director at Program Verification Systems. "With all the power of our PVS-Studio, CppCat is a lightweight tool embodying our entire experience in making developer instruments".
Pricing and availability
CppCat is a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012 or 2013. The price of a one-year license is merely $250 per developer per work seat. The renewal of the license costs $200.
About
Program Verification Systems develops tools for software developers and programmers since 2008. The flagship product of the company, PVS-Studio, has already helped finding and eliminating errors and bugs in such products as Apache HTTP Server, Chromium, MySQL, Tortoise SVN, Doom 3, Mozilla Firefox and many others.
Links
Product website: http://www.cppcat.com
Download link: http://www.cppcat.com/#download
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Webinar will examine the role of API-centric SOA, discuss various façade patterns, and present an API façade reference architecture designed to optimize API management
Palo Alto, CA – January 14, 2014 – Implementing an API façade pattern is critical to the success of an API ecosystem and its ability to support future expansion, scalability and deployment constraints. To support this effort, WSO2 will present a webinar examining how IT professionals can take advantage of an API façade pattern to optimize API management best practices and service-oriented architecture (SOA) integrity using WSO2 API Manager (http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/) and WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor/) (BAM).
API Façade Patterns with the WSO2 API Management Platform
WSO2 Vice President of Solutions Architecture Asanka Abeysinghe will present the webinar, “Implementing API Façade Using WSO2 API Management Platform.” Asanka will begin by reviewing how an API façade applies the fundamental layered architecture and abstracts the complex mediation requirements to help facilitate API management. Then he will present an API façade reference architecture and discuss the implementation details of using WSO2 API Manager in combination with WSO2 BAM. Additionally, he will examine an API-centric SOA, heterogeneous service platforms, service bindings, and various façade patterns. Finally, Asanka will present a demo to illustrate the concepts presented.
The one-hour technical webinar will be held Wednesday, January 22, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. Visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/implementing-api-facade-using-wso2-api-management-platform to learn more.
About the Presenter
Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 vice president of solutions architecture, provides consulting and training for enterprise IT architects and developers. He also focuses on the company’s vertical market capabilities, including financial services. Asanka has more than a decade of experience implementing projects, from desktops and Web applications to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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La Jolla, CA and Ann Arbor, MI — January 13, 2014 — Washtenaw Community College (WCC) is joining forces with MadCap Software to ensure students pursuing its Technical Communications Associate in Arts Degree or Technical Communications Certificate have clear competitive advantages when entering the workforce. Starting January 2014, the school will take advantage of MadCap Flare—the state-of-the art, future-proof authoring and multi-channel publishing software that supports print, Web, desktop and mobile—to provide students with the most advanced authoring and publishing solution available today. As a result, students will gain expertise in modern technical writing techniques through hands-on experience with the software used by thousands of companies across the globe.
WCC is dedicated to enriching the experiences of students in its English and Writing Department with leading technical communications tools and practices that will position them for successful careers. WCC plans to implement MadCap Flare in January as an update to its upper-level "ENG 209: Technical Writing III" course. Students enrolled in the class will be able to take advantage of Flare for completing hands-on projects that put concepts—such as topic-based authoring, the use of cascading style sheets, and single-source publishing—into practice. Ultimately, students will be able to generate different project outputs for print, online and mobile.
Having experienced great success with MadCap Flare in the past, I’m thrilled to share this real-world technical writing tool with our students. The projects we’ll be doing are building efforts that are not reactive, but proactive," said Lisa Veasey, a technical communication professor and advisor in the Department of English and Writing at Washtenaw Community College.
"MadCap has always been ahead of the curve with unbelievable services, responding to trends in the field and addressing user needs before they even realize it. The company genuinely cares about its customers by providing a great product. Once you’re a member, it’s for life!”
“We are thrilled by Washtenaw Community College’s adoption of MadCap Flare to enrich its course structure and support the real-world demands facing technical communications professionals today," said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. "Partnering with WCC highlights a shared vision for growth in education, best practices and opportunities. Through our MadCap Scholar Program, we can provide students with a competitive advantage in the workforce by empowering them to gain expertise in the modern techniques and tools used by businesses today.”
About MadCap Scholar
The MadCap Scholar Program offers special discounts on MadCap’s state-of-the-art technical communications software to help students, educators and universities gain access to industry-standard tools that support technical writing and documentation best practices. They include the ability to outfit labs with MadCap Software applications for free; free training, including the MAD Certification Test for teachers and professors, and discounts on software for current students. For more detail, visit http://www.madcapsoftware.com/education/scholar.aspx.
About Washtenaw Community College
Founded in 1965, Washtenaw Community College (WCC) welcomes more than 18,000 registrants for credit classes each year, and thousands more enroll in non-credit LifeLong Learning classes. WCC’s diverse student body includes more than 1,000 students from over 100 foreign countries. The college offers approximately 100 credit programs in business, health and public service, humanities and social science, math and natural sciences, and technology. The campus is home to the Washtenaw Technical Middle College, a charter high school providing students a chance at vocational degrees. Additionally, the college has extension centers in Brighton and Hartland and offers courses at high schools in Dexter, Chelsea, Manchester, Milan and Whitmore Lake. To learn more, visit http://www.wccnet.edu/.
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.
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Webinar will examine how IT professionals can refresh their enterprise architectures and adopt new architecture paradigms to foster connected business interactions
Palo Alto, CA – January 13, 2014 – Increasingly, organizations are taking advantage of mobile, social, cloud, and big data channels to reach customers and provide engaging experiences. WSO2 will present a new webinar to help enterprise teams reshape their architecture and deliver solution accelerator packs in order to effectively fit these channels into their architecture and middleware platform.
Reshaping Enterprise Architecture
WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad will present the webinar, “Reshaping Enterprise Architecture.” In the session, Chris will examine why modern enterprise architecture requires a refresh to accommodate mobile, social, cloud, and big data channels. He also will explore various architecture components that help foster connected business interactions. Finally, Chris will discuss how enterprise teams can easily reshape their existing architectures and adopt new architecture paradigms.
The one-hour technical webinar will be held Tuesday, January 21, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/reshaping-enterprise-architecture.
About the Presenter
Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Keyoti are pleased to release an update to their ASP.NET spell checking control, RapidSpell Web .NET.
New features include;
- Use web fonts within as-you-type text area, when specified in a CSS file
- Fix placement issue with static overlay
RapidSpell Web .NET provides web developers with a powerful yet easy to use spell checking control for web applications.
Features include; As-you-type, inline and dialog spell checking, custom dictionaries, full API access, minimal footprint and multiple text box checking.
Please download your free evaluation of RapidSpell Web .NET today
About Keyoti
Keyoti have been developing spell checking components for ASP.NET since 2001. We make continous improvements to our controls based on feedback from our customers as well as your end users. We take pride in answering any support questions promptly, often within minutes of receiving them. Email support is included free of charge for both evaluators and customers.
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Stimulsoft Company, a leading developer of software for creating reports and data analysis is pleased to announce the release of the next version of reporting tools Stimulsoft Reports.Fx 2013.3. The product line includes components for PHP, Flex, and Java. In the new release reports can be sent by e-mail. A new type of chart is added.
The new chart, Funnel Weighted Slices, is designed and added into the Chart component. The diagram represents different blocks by height, depending on the data provided, and is used to analyze the levels of sales.
When exporting reports, a new feature, sending a report by e-mail, is added. It supports the following options: e-mail address, subject, text. The feature is available in all Flash components.
Stimulsoft developers added the new feature, AutoPageScale. The option provides the ability to automatically scale the report page on the entire area of the page when printing. So the report is always be printed on the entire page regardless the paper size.
"Stimulsoft Reports.Fx version 2013.3 is another step to the creation of an ideal reporting system. - says a senior developer of Stimulsoft, Yuri Kubekin. - All enhancements and improvements made by us are the result of close-knit work of our developers and users. We believe, such a union is the most fruitful, and, as practice shows, not in vain".
Links:
Product page link: http://www.stimulsoft.com/en/products/fx
Download link: http://www.stimulsoft.com/en/downloads
Company website: http://www.stimulsoft.com/en/contact-us
About
Stimulsoft is a leading supplier of components for creating reports for the most popular development platforms. Stimulsoft´s customers include many large and small business organizations, government, educational, and non-profit institutions in more than 130 countries worldwide.
To get more information about the product, documentation, video tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy, please visit the website of the company at http://www.stimulsoft.com
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Webinar will examine how enterprises are using the WSO2 Carbon platform to enhance business performance and create new connected opportunities
Palo Alto, CA – January 8, 2014 – Increasingly, organizations are turning to mobile, social, cloud, and big data technology to create game-changing connected business opportunities. A new WSO2 webinar for IT professionals will examine how the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform (http://wso2.com/products/carbon/) is tuned for API-centric development, cloud-native deployment, and event-driven interactions that empower a more accessible, integrated, collaborative and adaptive business environment.
Using WSO2 Carbon to Foster Innovation
The webinar, “WSO2 Platform Introduction: Why, What, and How?,” will be presented by WSO2 Vice President of Platform Evangelism Chris Haddad. During the session, Chris will present use cases on how organizations are deploying the WSO2 Carbon platform to solve various business challenges and enable innovation. He also will explore key features and game-changing capabilities available in the WSO2 Carbon platform, how WSO2 Carbon is contributing to open source project advancement, and why WSO2 is a recognized as a trusted open source partner.
The one-hour technical webinar will be held Thursday, January 16, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/wso2-platform-introduction-why-what-and-how.
About the Presenter
Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of platform evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. Prior to joining WSO2, Chris led research teams as a research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors.
About WSO2 Carbon
WSO2 Carbon is the industry’s first fully componentized middleware platform for creating, running and managing composite applications and Web services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud environment. Built on the OSGi specification, WSO2 Carbon lets developers easily deploy and customize any of its WSO2 Carbon-based middleware products, and the 175-plus components on which they are comprised, providing greater flexibility and agility to meet changing enterprise demands.
The WSO2 Carbon core framework provides all WSO2 middleware products with a consistent set of enterprise-class management, security, clustering, logging, statistics, tracing, and other capabilities. The cloud-enabled WSO2 Carbon core lets IT professionals write an application once and then simply deploy it on the same middleware on-premise, on a PaaS, or in a hybrid environment. Additionally, the inherent multi-tenancy allows organizations to manage isolation between departments, partners or simply between separate development groups—whether deploying software as a service (SaaS) or running it directly on servers.
The award-winning 100% open source WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform is released under the Apache License 2.0 and does not carry any licensing fees.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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La Jolla, CA, / Austin, TX — January 7, 2014 — Austin Community College is joining forces with MadCap Software to ensure students pursuing the Certificate and the Associate of Applied Science in the Technical Communications Specialization have competitive advantages and a clear understanding of technical communications best practices when entering the workforce. The college is using MadCap Flare, the industry-leading authoring and multi-channel publishing product—supporting print, Web, desktop and mobile—to provide students with the most advanced authoring and publishing solution available.
Austin Community College’s Certificate and Associate of Applied Science in the Technical Communications Specialization provide preparation essential for careers in technical communications. Courses include developing print and online materials; working within the documentation process as writers, editors, reviewers, designers, and coordinators; exploring single sourcing, content management, and document control; practicing clear succinct direct writing; and using software applications most in demand by employers to develop portfolio-quality documents. The school is using MadCap Flare in the “ETWR 2374: Online Help and Online Help Tools” course.
One of the main goals of our Business & Technical Communications curriculum is to enable our students to have experience with the main software applications used by practicing technical communicators,” says David McMurrey, Ph.D., Department Chair for Business & Technical Communications. “MadCap’s industry-leading tool, MadCap Flare, is certainly one of those.”
“We’re honored by Austin Community College’s choice of MadCap Flare for its technical communications curriculum,” says Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. “Through this partnership we are pleased that we can provide students with the experience they need to strengthen their technical writing practices and give them a competitive advantage as they establish their careers.”
About MadCap Scholar
The MadCap Scholar program offers special discounts on MadCap’s state-of-the-art technical communications software to help students, educators and universities gain access to industry-standard tools that support technical writing and documentation best practices. They include the ability to outfit labs with MadCap Software applications for free; free training, including the MAD Certification Test for teachers and professors, and discounts on software for current students. For more detail, visit http://www.madcapsoftware.com/education/scholar.aspx
About Austin Community College
Austin Community College is a nationally recognized two-year college serving Central Texas. ACC is focused on student success and providing affordable, flexible pathways to help students reach their education goals, learn new job skills, or advance their career. The college currently enrolls more than 43,000 credit students and serves an additional 15,000 students each year through noncredit programs. For more information, visit http://www.austincc.edu
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software, Inc. is a leading technical communication software firm specializing in integrated applications for end-to-end content development, delivery and management. MadCap’s software products provide state-of-the-art content workflow solutions for multi-channel publishing, including the Web, print, desktop and mobile. Through its strategic partner Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), MadCap delivers solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and the .NET environment. Headquartered in La Jolla, CA, MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the documentation industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.
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Webinar will examine WSO2 API Manager 1.6 features, including workflow extensions, API Portal social integration, hybrid API Store support, and OAuth2-based API authentication
Palo Alto, CA – January 7, 2014 – Today, enterprises rely on managed APIs to empower new opportunities for monetization and ecosystem development by extending processes and services to customers, partners, and other groups within the organization. In a webinar for IT professionals, WSO2 will examine how to manage APIs using new capabilities in WSO2 API Manager 1.6, the 100% open source, fully multitenant API management product that can run both directly on servers and in the cloud.
The one-hour technical webinar, "Product Release Webinar - WSO2 APIM 1.6," will be held Wednesday, January 15, from 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com/library/webinars/2014/01/product-release-webinar-wso2-apim.
New Features in WSO2 API Manager 1.6
The webinar will begin with a review of how WSO2 API Manager (http://wso2.com/products/api-manager/) combines easy, managed API access with full API governance and analysis in a complete solution for API life cycle management. The session then will examine how to take advantage of several new features in WSO2 API Manager 1.6, including:
• Workflow extensions.
• Support for multiple backend endpoint types.
• OAuth2-based API authentication.
• Functionality for throttling and restricting API access.
• Response caching support for APIs.
• Hybrid API Store support, including super tenant/tenant stores and subscription control.
• API tracing.
• Social integration of the API Portal.
Leading the webinar will be Sumedha Rubasinghe, WSO2 senior software architect. Sumedha focuses on development of the WSO2 Carbon Core, WSO2 Data Services, WSO2 Governance Registry, WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, and WSO2 API Manager. He also has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements. Additionally, Sumedha is an active committer on the Apache Axis2 project.
About WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager is the first 100% open source API management product to combine easy, managed API access with full API governance and analysis. As the first API management product to offer an API Store, it lets IT organizations set up their own Apple or Google Marketplace-like store where developers can easily subscribe to and consume APIs. Meanwhile it provides API publishers with complete API lifecycle governance—from creating to publishing, deprecating and retiring APIs—as well as analytics and metrics to support decision-making and enforce service-level agreement (SLA) policies.
WSO2 API Manager is built on the same WSO2 technology used by enterprises around the world, including a major online retailer that is handling more than 1 billion API calls per day. Providing full multi-tenancy, it runs directly on server hardware or in a virtualized environment, such as an Amazon or VMware cloud, bringing the efficiencies of multi-tenancy and self-service to on-premises deployments. Additionally, the cloud-ready WSO2 API Manager software can plug into the WSO2 platform as a service (PaaS) foundation to operate as part of a PaaS, adding cloud-native capabilities, such as elastic scaling, expanded self-service provisioning, metering, billing, and storage, among others.
About WSO2
WSO2 is the only company that provides a completely integrated enterprise application platform for enabling a business to build and connect APIs, applications, Web services, iPaaS, PaaS, software as a service and legacy connections without having to write code; using big data and mobile; and fostering reuse through a social enterprise store. Only with WSO2 can enterprises use a family of governed secure solutions built on the same code base to extend their ecosystems across the cloud and on mobile devices to employees, customers and partners in anyway they like. Hundreds of leading enterprise customers across every sector—health, financial, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel, technology, telecom and more—in every region of the world rely on WSO2’s award-winning, 100% open source platform for their mission-critical applications. To learn more, visit http://wso2.com, or check out the WSO2 community on the WSO2 Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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Durandal Kickstarter
Durandal : Single Page Apps Done Right
Durandal is a lightweight JavaScript framework designed to make building Single Page Applications (SPAs) simple and elegant. It has strong support for MVC, MVP and MVVM so that no matter what type of front end architecture you prefer, Durandal can handle the task. With RequireJS as its base and a thin layer of conventions, Durandal can provide amazing productivity while helping you to maintain SOLID coding practices. Pair that with out-of-the-box support for rich UI composition, modal dialogs, messaging, widgets, transitions, routing and more....and there's no doubt you'll be able to build whatever apps you can imagine.
While Durandal has only been publicly available for about a year now, the community has grown at a breakneck pace. As a result, we’ve launched a Kickstarter to help us accomplish some amazing things in 2014. I’d like to take a few minutes to share our planned initiatives and invite you to join us in shaping the future of the web. Our goals break down into four categories: releases, tooling, training and the next generation.
Releases
Durandal had 16 releases in 2013. That’s 2 major releases, 2 minor releases, 4 patches and 8 pre-releases. It was a ton of work, but it was worth it and we were able to maintain a rigorous adherence to semantic versioning principles along the way as well as provide upgrade guides to our developers. But we aren’t satisfied with that. 2014 has to be better. We want to be able to address bugs faster and get release packages out sooner. We want to be able to rev the framework in a non-breaking way so that we can better meet the increasing demands of our customers as they explore ever challenging landscapes. We want to have richer, task-based documentation that helps developers fall into “the pit of success”. All this requires enormous time and effort. We are up to the task but we need your support.
Tooling
Traditional web development tooling has come a long way over the years. But Single Page Apps are so new that the tooling tends to be fairly primitive or non-existent. Durandal has a good start in this area due its collection of starter kits geared to various build platforms. But, we consider that a bare minimum and it falls far short of our vision. In 2014 we want to take things a little further by putting some more essential pieces in place. First, we want to improve our own build tool, Weyland, by fixing some bugs and opening up new scenarios. Second, we want to add better support for Grunt, a very popular JavaScript build tool. Finally, we want to create a dev-time tool that monitors your views and modules for changes while you work. When a view changes, it will update the html "in place" inside your app without needing to restart it or refresh the browser. If your code changes, it will automatically refresh the browser for you. We know this will change the way many build apps. There will be no more “design-time”. The running app will be the design surface. We’ve wanted to build this for a long time now. We know how to do it, but we need your support in order to carve out the time to make it happen.
Training
The web is changing. In much the way that AJAX transformed the way web apps were written in the last decade, SPA frameworks are changing things today. It’s an exciting time with amazing possibilities, but many developers are left having to “figure it out” by themselves. There are precious few resources on building these apps, and among the resources that do exist, many are poor or incomplete. The Durandal project aims to change that. We want to produce three full series in 2014. Each series will take you through building a different SPA from end-to-end. No stone will be left unturned. From data-binding, validation and dirty tracking to routing, history, pub/sub and UI architecture patterns, these courses will not only give you knowledge but walk you through real scenarios and empower you to create awesome applications for the future. We’re confident that this will be some of the best JavaScript learning materials on the web. Want to see one of the apps we’ll teach you how to build? Check this out. We want you to have it. Will you join us?
NextGen
Durandal is opening up amazing new opportunities for developers today. We’re working hard on our current versions and that’s a big part of our plans for 2014. But we’re also thinking about the future. Right now groups like ECMA and W3C are planning a host of new technologies for the browser; everything from new JavaScript language features to improvements in the networking stack to enhancements and extensions of the DOM. It could make the browser into an awesome development platform...or it could destroy it. How do we know we can use what they are designing? How do we know they won’t favor a certain company’s framework or “way”? How do we know that they’ll even enable good web development practices that have emerged over the years? I’d hate to be stuck with bad or practically useless technology when amazing opportunities exist. Durandal can help with this. In 2014 we want to build an alternate implementation of Durandal on top of emerging browser technologies. We want to put these specs to the test and provide the standards groups will real case studies. As it turns out, the ECMA and W3C groups really want this. They’ve been asking for it because they don’t want to mess up. They want to help web developers get what they really need. As a result the Durandal project has had some great interactions with these groups and has already been able to affect changes and improvements in some specs. But, we need time to really dig in and re-imagine the framework in terms of things like Web Components, Object.observe and ES6. With your help we can build an awesome NextGen app framework and provide the needed feedback that the standards bodies desire. Check out this video that demonstrates our progress to date.
Taking Action
The Durandal project has helped thousands of developers build awesome apps. As you can see, we’ve got big plans. But, we need your help. We hope you’ll take some time to look at our Kickstarter. There’s some cool rewards available and some great opportunities for individuals, consultants and large organizations. It’s a great way to support open source, help build the web and walk away with some excellent perks. What do you say? Will you help us make history?
Durandal Kickstarter
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