a user | 28 Apr 2012 23:48
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SOA suite comparison - should I choose Apache? How is WSO2 related to Apache?

Hello Apache community, I'm glad to make your acquaintance.

My first question here is about a research I'm making these days: I must 
choose among open-source Software Oriented Architectures, and it seems 
to me the three complete platforms (they have all the pieces I need) are:

  * /*Jboss SOA
    Suite*/-->http://www.redhat.com/products/jbossenterprisemiddleware/soa/
  * /*Apache*/(it's not a suite but you have all the fundamental pieces
    - am I right?)
  * /*WSO2 SOA Suite*/-->http://wso2.com/products/platforms

My conclusion on these platforms are that:

  * /*JBoss*/is backed by a*big and active community*, and it is the
    first I've heard of. The downside is that its*ESB cannot match
    services' multiple endpoints*- in other words it matches only one
    endpoint per service;
  * /*Apache*/has a*great community*too, and has*Tuscany SCA (Service
    Component Architecture)*[http://tuscany.apache.org/] - WSO2 and
    JBoss do not have a SCA middleware (tell me if I'm wrong here);
  * /*WSO2*/has a*complete suite*(it seems it has all SOA's middleware
    pieces) except for the SCA. Here the downside is that*the community
    is only of 350 members*- they declare that they've joined Apache
    projects, and /*the question here is: can I count on your support
    for WSO2 products?*/

If my research brought me to incorrect conclusion, tell me where I've 
misunderstood something, and if you think it's incomplete and there are 
alternative that need to be taken into account it will be much useful to 
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Sagara Gunathunga | 29 Apr 2012 06:48
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Re: SOA suite comparison - should I choose Apache? How is WSO2 related to Apache?

Hi,

First, thanks for contacting this list but within this list we are not able
to provide in-depth comparisons or insights of any Apache project ( in your
case SOA suite) instead of that purpose of this list is to help with new
people to engage with right Apache communities and discuss community
matters. Please find my generic answers for your questions.

1.) Apache don't promotes idea of complete product suite such as SOA suite.
In fact, we have number of competitive products that can be used to build
SOA stack and already have number of commercials SOA  stacks which built
using Apache products. For example we have number of Web Services engines (
Axis . Axis2, CXF ) and number of ESBs ( Synapse, ServiceMix ) etc.  One
can integrate some of those components to make a SOA product stack.  In
here [1] you can find all the Apache projects with a brief introduction,
please go through this page and find any project that match with your basic
criteria. Once you identified those projects you can contact each of
project community through their user mailing list to get in depth technical
details of the project also you can read project documentation that covers
great details about the project. You can find mailing list details from
each project's web site for example for Tuscany SCA this is the page you
need to refer [2].

2.) In here or  any other Apache lists we only can comment on Apache
projects we can't provide any comment or recommendation about commercials
offerings. In fact, In Apache we don't know and we don't interest on what
commercials organization do with our products ( specially about their
technical aspects)  as far as their products compliance with Apache
trademark policy and not violating base Apache product's license. Usually
Apache don't provide any support on commercials offerings of our products
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Gmane