The document discusses WSO2 App Factory, which is a platform for managed application development that supports applications throughout their lifecycle. It provides automated, configurable DevOps and governance tools to manage infrastructure and development workflows. Key features include reducing time to market, enhancing developer experience, facilitating regulatory compliance, increasing reuse and visibility, and providing management dashboards. It demonstrates App Factory and provides resources for learning more.

1. In
the
Spotlight
-­‐
WSO2
App
Factory
Danushka
Fernando
(danushkaf@wso2.com)
So7ware
Engineer
Ramith
Jayasinghe
(ramith@wso2.com)
Technical
Lead

2. About WSO2
• Providing the only complete open source componentized cloud
platform
– Dedicated to removing all the stumbling blocks to enterprise agility
– Enabling you to focus on business logic and business value
• Recognized by leading analyst firms as visionaries and leaders
– Gartner cites WSO2 as visionaries in all 3 categories of application
infrastructure
– Forrester places WSO2 in top 2 for API Management
• Global corporation with offices in USA, UK & Sri Lanka
– 200+ employees and growing
• Business model of selling comprehensive support &
maintenance for our products

3. 150+ globally positioned support customers

4. What is WSO2 App Factory
• Platform for managed application development
• Support application from cradle to grave
• Manage infrastructure
• Provide automated configurable devops and
governance
• Hosted as a cloud service
• 100% Open source – Apache2 licence

5. WSO2 App Factory unifies Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Project and
Team
Management
Software
development
workflow
Governance and
Compliance
Development
Dashboards
Develop Code
Issue TrackingSource Control
Continuous Build
Continuous
Integration
Test Automation
Continuous
Deployment

6. WSO2 App Factory unifies Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Project and
Team
Management
Software
development
workflow
Governance and
Compliance
Development
Dashboards
Develop Code
Issue TrackingSource Control
Continuous Build
Continuous
Integration
Test Automation
Continuous
Deployment

7. WSO2 App Factory Development Environment

8. User Experience of App Factory

9. User Experience of App Factory

10. User Experience of App Factory

11. App Factory Features
Reduce time to market:
• Eliminate effort/complexities involved in setting up environments
(Development, Testing, production etc).
• Quickly provision Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)
tools.
• Issue Tracker, Source Code Repository, Continuous Integration
Server
• Effectively configure governance workflow best practices.
• Select appropriate application platform.
• Productively collaborate with the right people, at the right time

12. App Factory Features
Enhanced Developer Experience:
• Preconfigured application types
• Webapps, JAXRS, BPEL, Jaggery etc.
• Integrated tools
• Continuous build, integration, test and delivery
• Dependency Management
• Different resources (database, API, registry resources) at each stage.
Automatically wire to correct resource based on stage

13. App Factory Features
Facilitate regulatory compliance:
• Extension points to enforce an approval process via BPEL .
• E.g. Application creation could go through a approval process ( by a
manager)
• Review gates and approval checklist items
• Automated build, test execution and versioning
Create Application
Approve
application

14. App Factory Features
Increase Re-use and Visibility:
• Reduce technical debt, minimize backlog, and constantly
communicate project status
• Reduce application proliferation
• Increase application re-use
• Constant communication and coordination
• What applications exist?
• When will an application be delivered?
• Who is consuming an application?
• Overcome SOA Anti-patterns such as,
• Not Invented Here (NIH),
• Tight Coupling and Build again

15. App Factory Features
Management Dashboards for CXOs & Project Managers
• Development dashboards deliver at a glance view of projects’
status, lifecycle, activity, and health.
• Application and API subscriptions and usage
• DevOps KPI monitoring via integration with WSO2 Business
Activity Monitor

16. App Factory Features
Shared Infrastructure
• Shared elastic runtime for all applications
• Shared use of source repositories, build farm, testing servers
and more.

17. App Factory Features
Customizability
• All actions are going through customizable workflow
• Application Creation
• Adding users to applications
• Deploying Application to a cloud
• Application life cycle management (Promote/Demote)
• Number of stages, roles can be customizable
• Uses SCXML – state chart XML
• SDLC tools of your choice can be integrated.

18. Demonstration

19. More Resources
Try out App Factory at :
https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com
User Guide:
http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/AF100/User+Guide
Wso2 Developer Studio
http://wso2.com/products/developer-studio
More Information:
http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory

20. Questions?

21. Engage with WSO2
• Helping you get the most out of your deployments
• From project evaluation and inception to development
and going into production, WSO2 is your partner in
ensuring 100% project success