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    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    WSO2 says they have taken a fresh look at old-style, centralized ESB architectures, and designed their unique WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus from the ground up as the highest performance, lowest footprint, and most interoperable service oriented architecture (SOA) and integration middleware today. Additionally, the vendor says that by relying on their carbon technology the ESB is able to deliver a smooth start-to-finish project experience.N/A
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    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
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    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Considered Both Products
    WSO2
    Chose WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    I have recently been using Mule ESB. I also found their product to be solid. I like how you can develop message mediation rules in Mule Eclipse IDE. They have a lot of features to build services with less custom development.
    Incentivized
    Chose WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    We previously used the Oracle Weblogic solution, but:
    - it was more expensive
    - it's not open source
    Incentivized
    Chose WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    It's the only one truly open source and free.
    Incentivized
    Chose WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    WSO2 ESB's biggest advantage over them is that it is an open source project. It has no heavy licensing fees and expensive contract fees. WSO2 provides the same level of scalability and stability. WSO2 ESB is very light weight and developer friendly. The WSO2 ESB run time …
    Chose WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    The most important reasons are:
    • It is free and open source with a good support either community and enterprise.
    • It has very good documents so you can easily extend it and create a good developer team.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Mule ESB
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM DataPower Gateway
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    WSO2
    WSO2 ESB is an awesome product for companies looking to venture into the world of SOA with an ESB. They have a lot of other products too that can work really well with their carbon infrastructure. The interface is simple for deploying and managing proxy services. You can also write custom modules within the ESB using Java with IDE like Eclipse
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    Pros
    WSO2
    • One of the basic requirement of an ESB product is that it should be able to support transformation. WSO2 ESB provides support of XSLT, so you can transform your request to whatever format. Moreover, transformations like converting your xml payload into JSON and JSON payload to XML are out of the box available.
    • WSO2 ESB provides a scheduler feature, by which you can configure your own scheduler to call a proxy service at a particular time of day or or initiate sequence.
    • WSO2 ESB provides excellent error handling techniques, WSO2 ESB provides detailed error handling scenarios to tackle all the situations. WSO2 ESB also provides custom error handling by which you can make your own custom error message before sending it back to client.
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    Cons
    WSO2
    • While it's easy to configure for a quick start, it is not so easy to deploy by yourself in a complex production scenario.
    • Not very stable for production usage, we encountered several trivial bugs that make us believe that this product is still not widely adopted.
    • Lack of a built in mechanism for auto-restart in case of an application server crash.
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    Usability
    WSO2
    Compared to competitors the overall experience has been fine
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    Reliability and Availability
    WSO2
    Lack of auto-restart built-in capabilities. In case of running out of memory there are no built-in methods to recover from a crash, just for example, Oracle WebLogic Node Manager.
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    Performance
    WSO2
    The product is performing well and consuming few resources
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    Support Rating
    WSO2
    Our experience with the WSO2 support has beent satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    WSO2
    It's the only one truly open source and free.
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    Scalability
    WSO2
    Adding a server node is really straightforward, there are just few point in the configuration files.
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    Return on Investment
    WSO2
    • Very well documented tutorials and case studies makes it easy to learn.
    • It has a really supportive community
    • It is fast and it can easily handle 300 tps of average use on a VM with 4Gig RAM
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