WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus Reviews & Insights

Score7.1 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Efficient Transformation Operations: Users have found WSO2 Micro Integrator to be highly efficient in handling transformation operations at the middleware level, saving them valuable time. Several reviewers have stated that the mediators owned by WSO2 Micro Integrator allow them to perform various tasks, such as exposing Database data as an API or transforming XML format to JSON format.

Cost-effective Licensing and Scalability: The cost-effective licensing of WSO2 Micro Integrator has been appreciated by users, with several reviewers mentioning that it only requires the necessary space and is scalable. The scalability, support, and open-source platform of WSO2 Micro Integrator have also been praised by users.

Ease of Implementation and Out-of-the-box Features: Reviewers have found WSO2 Micro Integrator easy to implement, with many highlighting the availability of numerous out-of-the-box connectors. The product's open-source nature has made it a cheaper option for smaller projects. Additionally, users have noted that WSO2 Micro Integrator reduced the time-to-market for their projects.

WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus Reviews

5 Reviews

My WSO2 ESB review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 5, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I worked on WSO2 ESB and with WSO2 Registry for about four years. The primary goal of WSO2 ESB was to provide a common gateway for all Enterprise Services in the organization and reduce silo development of services. I am not currently using it at the moment.

Pros

WSO2 ESB has a very nice Graphical UI for managing deployment of services and monitoring services. It uses Apache Synapse to manage the message mediation and can make changes within the UI at runtime and deploy it on-demand if necessary. It is open source and free.
WSO2 has an array of other enterprise level products that integrate with each other very well. WSO2 GREG for governance of service artifacts, WSO2 AM for identity management and their API manager.

Cons

WSO2 ESB has a lot of nice GUI elements and some for monitoring services. I think it could do away with them. The documentation and tutorials can be more updated with their product version.
I think support could be lot better in terms of their response times.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Sonam Samdupkhangsar

Senior (Consultant) Software Engineer in Information Technology at Intermountain Healthcare (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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wso2 esb for university services

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

April 26, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WSO2 enterprise service bus to orchestrate and integrate business services offered to universities.

Pros

It's really easy to install for a quick evaluation.
Open source. This is a must in our company.
It's highly scalable. Adding computing nodes is really straightforward.
Good product support, quick and effective.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Wso2 carbon products are well suited for a devops scenario. Once you've found the right recipe for your company it's then really straightforward to replicate or extend installation.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

WSO2 ESB is THE CHOICE

Rating: 9 out of 10

September 8, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WSO2 is Gfi's reference open source SOA infrastructure stack. We have deployed it successfully several times in Spain.

Pros

Extensive EIP support.
Performance: very high throughput and low latency.
Security standards coverage.
Extensibility: if a mediator doesn't fit your needs you can extend it or even rewrite it.
Truly multi-tenant. No need to deploy separate instances to handle internal and external traffic.
First class production support.
Absolutely free. No enterprise paid add-ons. What you download (binaries and source code) is what it is.
WSO2 platform is growing fast with innovative products. Take a look at BAM roadmap as an example.

Cons

If you are used to heavyweight IDE with lots of wizards maybe you will miss it until you'll fall in love with fast and easy XML configuration.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are considering alternatives first review its capabilities and last take your spreadsheet and estimate TCO. You'll go with WSO2.

Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez

Architecture Practice Manager in Professional Services at Gfi España (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

A light Insight in WSO2 ESB

Rating: 8 out of 10

August 11, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using WSO2 as a development platform to deliver enterprise solutions. Our core area of expertise is to provide integration solutions between different existing components. We are also using ESB as a routing and transformation medium. Transformation is the main area required in Integration solutions. ESB is also being used as medium to connect to different systems, like SAP ERP systems.

Pros

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.

Cons

WSO2 ESB needs to provide a GUI mapper tool like Tibco etc. When we are writing XSLT by ourselves, we are always more prone to error. So if there is a good mapper tool with a interactive user interface, it will expand the WSO2 market a lot.
Rest APIs concepts need to be more clarified and made in a simpler way. When using patterns with resources , there is a lot of confusion between URL mappings and URI templates. The documentation needs to be more extensive.
In Fault handling scenarios, right now WSO2 only provides unique error codes related to endpoint error handling but there should be a unique error code for other scenarios like transformation errors and validation errors.

Likelihood to Recommend

WSO2 ESB is the best choice in the following scenarios:

When simple message routing is required. WSO2 provides message stores which guarantee message delivery and you don't have to worry about message persistence.
When you need to schedule something within your implementation than WSO2 ESB has right tool for you. You can configure it once and then you don't have to worry at all.
When connecting with SAP systems.
When a message transformation is required.
When there is a conversion required between XML to JSON and JSON to XML.
When you require service orchestration then WSO2 ESB is the best choice.

Omer Khalid

Integration Engineer in Information Technology at W-integrate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Why I am sticking to WSO2 ESB?

Rating: 9 out of 10

August 10, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WSO2 ESB as our main choice for integration. We offer many services such as payment and/or expose some data to our customers or developers using API management which is built-in. Using WSO2 ESB helped us in agility and since it supports dev-ops we really got faster and safer.
It helps us to easily develop, monitor and trouble shoot errors as fast as possible. In addition to our development department we also offer some consultancy services to our customers. Using WSO2 ESB in the telecommunications industry as the main integration platform is what we are doing and advise others to do so.

Pros

WSO2 ESB is really fast and reliable and it can be easily clustered.
As a developer it is easy to develop, maintain and trouble shoot with WSO2 ESB, its management console is really well designed.
Very good documentation and a real responsive community is supporting WSO2 and you can see the good changes, version by version.
It is free and open source and it [always] will be!

Cons

The management console is really good but sometimes when you haven't done an HTTP action (post/get) to the server and you are working with the sequences, you may lose some data after submission!
Sometimes error handling and built-in logging is not good, mostly when you are extending it with script mediators or class mediators.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is very good in the company of other WSO2 products since they offer an open source platform for SOA; it is really good to use it as middleware. It is really good to handle service orchestration (it supports EIP). It is good to mange APIs in the company of WSO2 API Manager.

Reza Ameri

Software Architect in Information Technology at Persian SmartPath (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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A light Insight in WSO2 ESB

Rating: 8 out of 10

August 11, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

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.

Cons

WSO2 ESB needs to provide a GUI mapper tool like Tibco etc. When we are writing XSLT by ourselves, we are always more prone to error. So if there is a good mapper tool with a interactive user interface, it will expand the WSO2 market a lot.
Rest APIs concepts need to be more clarified and made in a simpler way. When using patterns with resources , there is a lot of confusion between URL mappings and URI templates. The documentation needs to be more extensive.
In Fault handling scenarios, right now WSO2 only provides unique error codes related to endpoint error handling but there should be a unique error code for other scenarios like transformation errors and validation errors.

Likelihood to Recommend

WSO2 ESB is the best choice in the following scenarios:

When simple message routing is required. WSO2 provides message stores which guarantee message delivery and you don't have to worry about message persistence.
When you need to schedule something within your implementation than WSO2 ESB has right tool for you. You can configure it once and then you don't have to worry at all.
When connecting with SAP systems.
When a message transformation is required.
When there is a conversion required between XML to JSON and JSON to XML.
When you require service orchestration then WSO2 ESB is the best choice.

Omer Khalid

Integration Engineer in Information Technology at W-integrate (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience