The document provides a comprehensive workshop guide for using the WSO2 Microservices Server (MSS), covering setup, development, and deployment of microservices using Java and Maven. It includes practical examples, such as creating REST endpoints, handling requests with curl, and configuring a Kubernetes deployment environment. Additionally, it emphasizes the benefits of microservices, including scalability and easy deployment, while recommending further reading on the topic.

1. Microservices Server – MSS
Workshop
Edgar Silva
edgar @wso2.com

2. o This workshop is intend to cover how to use the WSO2
Microservices Server – MSS, we will cover some basic
overview about some concepts, but we strongly
recommend you look for more detailed basics about
Microservices.
o Recommended reading:
o http://nginx.com/blog/introduction-to-microservices/
o https://www.nginx.com/blog/building-microservices-using-an-api-
gateway/
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Basics Pre-Reqs

5. o Java 8
o Maven
o See the MSS’s releases page:
o https://github.com/wso2/product-mss/releases
o Let’s work direct from the source:
o Git pull
o https://github.com/wso2/product-mss
o Or simply download from this url: (easier)
https://github.com/wso2/product-mss/archive/master.zip
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7. o So, cd
<MSS_HOME>/samples
o Make you sure you could
import the project
hello_world
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8. o Go to the dir:
o <MSS_HOME>/samples/hello_world
o Type:
mvn package
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9. o After Maven process
o ( be pacient while downloading  )
o What is happening:
o The pom.xml inside the sample, inherits the dependencies
from the root’s pom.xml, that’s why you don’t need to worry
with this process
o In a few (seconds) you will have a hello_service....jar into
your target folder.
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• WSO2 Microservices Server booting in my case less than 300ms
• In the previous maven process, every dependency from other jars were
included into your helloworld-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar, including the reference
to the Main Java Class.
• Everything you need is ready 

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package org.wso2.carbon.mss.example;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
/**
* Hello service resource class.
*/
@Path("/hello")
public class HelloService {
@GET
@Path("/{name}")
public String hello(@PathParam("name") String name) {
return "Hello " + name;
}
}
}
JAX-RS
Simple class (REST Endpoint
REST Java Method

12. o The simplest Java Class startup
o See the main method:
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public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new MicroservicesRunner()
.deploy(new HelloService())
.start();
}

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edgar$ curl -v http://localhost:8080/hello/valentina

14. o Take a look on this:
o http://www.confusedbycode.com/curl/
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15. o Thanks @jpviragine for that great tip:
https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie
o Really great tool, works like cURL, but much better and more user friendly
o Syntax: http <options> service or URL
o But if you prefer to be “roots”, ok, continue if cURL
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public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new MicroservicesRunner(7888, 8888)
.deploy(new HelloService())
.start();
}
Services exposed through different ports(*)
(*) Default port is 8080 when no ports are specified

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18. 1. Enter in the <mss_home>/samples/stockquote-
service
2. mvn package
3. java -jar target/stockquote-service-1.0.0-
SNAPSHOT.jar
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19. o In the console type: (Windows Users
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/stockquote/GOOG
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20. o Now we will send a POST message to our Service:
o Please type (or copy and paste) the following command:
o curl -v -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d
'{"symbol":"BVMF","name":
"Bovespa","last":149.62,"low":150.78,"high":149.18,"createdByHost":"localh
ost"}' http://localhost:8080/stockquote
o This command will save a new Symbol into our Stock Quote Service
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21. o You had used:
o Java 8 + maven for building our samples and
exercises
o Executed Microservices with basic jar –jar approach
o You saw how easy you can build REST Services and
deploy them into your Mic’service Server (powered by
WSO2)
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23. o Several approaches for a “decoupled SOA”
o In this tutorial we will use the “Container-based
approach”
o Microservices are about:
o Lighter
o Business Need Oriented
o Composable
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Web
Server
ASP.NET ADO.NET
Windows OS
.NET CLR RuntimeFront-Store
HTML

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Web
Server
Web
Framework
(JSF,
Struts, etc)
Persitence
(JPA,
Hibernate,Sprin
gTemplates)
Any OS
JVM
Other
(JMS, JTA
etc)
App Server
Front-Store
HTML

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Product Service
get /products
post /products
get /products/{id}
get /products/offset/10/1
CustomerService
get /customers
post /customers
get /customers/{id}
get /customers/export
AddressService
get /address
post /address/{zip}
get /address/geo/{x}/{y}
3Examples

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Product Service
CustomerService
AddressService
AddressService ProductService
Customer
Service
AddressService Customer Service
SinglePage APP
HTML
FrontStoreService
Delivery Service

28. o Quick deployments
o You are deploying a loosely-coupled, modular
component only 
o Not a huge EAR with dozens of Jars as you used to do in a
monolithic enterprise App
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Monolithic
Microservices
Reference: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#ComponentizationViaServices

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Paulo Merson https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2015/11/defining-microservices.html
Great definition, written by another Brazilian 
From an architecture perspective, the microservice style belongs primarily to
the deployment view.
It dictates that the deployment unit should contain only one service or
just a few cohesive services.
The deployment constraint is the distinguishing factor. As a result,
microservices are easier to deploy, become more scalable, and can be
developed more independently by different teams using different
technologies.
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31. o Benefits of using microservices:
o Deployability
o Availability
o Scalability
o Modifiability
o Management
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Paulo Merson https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2015/11/microservices-beyond-the-hype-what-you-gain-and-what-you-lose.html
( Great post )

32. o I would add:
o Deployability
o Availability (Auto-Scaling via Containers)
o Analytics
o Scalability
o Modifiability
o Management
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Paulo Merson https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2015/11/microservices-beyond-the-hype-what-you-gain-and-what-you-lose.html

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34. o Part 2:
We ship in the distro
an example showing how to
run a whole deploy from several
different container machines managed
by Kubernetes.
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35. o In your command line, go to your:
<mss_home>/samples/petstore
o Enter in deployment folder and execute: run.sh
o That’s all, time to get some juice, it will download everything you need:
o Vagrant
o CoreOS
o Kubernetes
o Docker
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36. o https://github.com/wso2/product-
mss/tree/master/samples/petstore/deployment/kubernete
s-vagrant-coreos-cluster
o Disclaimer: This tutorial is focused on WSO2 Micro
Services Server – MSS, and some introduction to the
basics on Kubernetes is strongly recommended before
you move forward on this tutorial.
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This step will get a few minutes, according to your internet and machine,
So get relaxed while you can enjoy some “Matrix-like” in your console
http://thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/11/relax-at-work.jpg

38.  Double check if your JAVA_HOME is Java 8
 Please , if you are using MacOS, make sure you that you have wget
installed.
 Recommend you use brew install wget
 If you get errors communicating with Kubernetes nodes, please add this
variable before execute run.sh:
 export KUBERNETES_MASTER=http://172.17.8.101:8080
 That will be the default Kubernetes UI Console and API Address
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Our traditional Pet Store Sample
has the following Microservices …
fileserver frontend-admin frontend-user
Pet (store) transactionsecurity

40. o If you are using VirtualBox as the Hypervisor
(recommended), you will see the following 3
VMs started
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41. o Please, execute the command:
o kubectl get pods
o The result must be like this:
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All the pods, must be
Like this, keep repeating
This process until all get
ready

42. o Please, execute the command:
o kubectl get pods
o The result must be like this:
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Troubleshooting:
If your pet-xxx appears
the READY info as 0/1
It might be not initialized
Syncronized with Redis.
To solve that, execute:
./clean.sh and later on
./petstore.sh

43. o Kubernetes UI
o Nodes
o Services
o Pods
o General Info
o Pet Store Admin (PHP App)
o Pet Store Site (PHP App)
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44. http://172.17.8.101:8080/ui
Here is the Kubernetes Admin that you can open in your browser
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45. Relationship between the VMs and Kubernetes (Nodes)
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Here you can see the Ips
Attached to the each Node

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Viewing the Pods
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/pods.html

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Viewing the Pods
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/pods.html

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Viewing the Services

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Viewing Replication Controllers
In Kubernetes, the base unit of deployment is a pod (intro to pods), which is a
group of containers that work together and therefore are logically grouped. The
replication controller stores a pod template in order to create new pods if
needed.
https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/replication-controller.html

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Your Machine OS
Hypervisor
Kubernetes Cluster-Master
K8S Node 01 K8S Node 02
Pods Pods
Replication Controller
Service

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Your Machine OS
Hypervisor
Kubernetes Cluster-Master
K8S Node 01 K8S Node 02
Pods Pods
Replication Controller
Service
Browser

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Your Machine OS
Hypervisor
Kubernetes Cluster-Master
K8S Node 01 K8S Node 02
Pods Pods
Replication Controller
Service
Browser
NGINX

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Getting Actual pods:
$ kubectl get pods

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Getting details about some pod, for instance
$ kubectl describe pods store-fe-r43hm

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Getting details about some pod, for instance
$ kubectl describe pods store-fe-r43hm
Please, note here which is the
Pod internal IP: 10.244.36.23
And in which Node this pod
Is actually running
Important: notice that the pod’s id
will change if you restart your
environment 
In my actual case, my pod is
store-fe-<id>, id= r43m

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Getting Actual Services:
$ kubectl describe service store-fe

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Persistence Repository / Services
"Containerized” Microservices based in pure java –jar approach
Client Apps (PHP)
petstore-admin petstore

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You will need to browse the service: admin-fe
http:// Node Server IP: Node Port
Ex: http://172.17.8.102:30984/

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admin/admin

62. fileserver

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You will need to browse the service: store-fe
http:// Node Server IP: Node Port
Ex: http://172.17.8.102:31466/

65. Here the Microservices Transaction
Is invoked.

66. o Executing the petstore sample
o Understanding the basics from Kubernetes and
its concepts, such as pods, services and
Replication Controller.
o Executing the Services and Apps

67. o Proposed Lab:
o Execute the previous samples from Part1 in
Kubernetes + Docker
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69. o Please go to : http://wso2.com/products/data-analytics-server/
o Download the product
o Install the product:
1. Unzip
2. That’s all
3. Let’s call your installation destination folder as DAS_HOME from now
on
o MySQL for this sample is also required
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70. o Step 1: Configure WSO2 DAS
1. Go to <MSS_HOME>/analytics/das-setup and execute setup.sh :
1. /setup.sh -d <DAS_HOME> -u admin -p
2. Done, everything will be done by the script!
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71. o Step 2: Execute DAS Server
1. Enter in DAS_HOME
2. Make sure that Java 8 is in the path
3. Type sh bin/wso2server.sh
4. Wait until to see a message in the console like this:
5. Open this browser URL, it will let you see the WSO2
Data Analytics Server Console (default user admin
and password admin)
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WSO2 DAS is ready and configured!

73. o Step 3: (based on
https://github.com/wso2/product-
mss/tree/master/samples/metrics)
1. Go to <MSS_HOME>/samples/metrics
2. Execute mvn clean install
3. Please, export the following system variables:
1. export METRICS_REPORTING_DAS_DATAAGENTCONFIGPATH="data-agent-conf.xml”
2. export HTTP_MONITORING_DAS_DATAAGENTCONFIGPATH="data-agent-conf.xml”
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74. 4. Execute: $ java -jar target/metrics-*.jar
5. Invoke the following URLs via command line:
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/test/rand/500
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/test/total/10
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/test/echo/test
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/student/910760234V
o curl -v --data
"{'nic':'860766123V','firstName':'Jack','lastName':'Black','age':
29}" -H "Content-Type: application/json"
http://localhost:8080/student
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/student/860766123V
o curl -v http://localhost:8080/student
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75. o What is happening:
o Now, after the invocation from cURLs, some
information were sent from WSO2 Microservices
Server to WSO2 Data Analytics Server.
o The Metrics are also present in the command line
where you are running the jar:
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77. @GET
@Path("/{nic}")
@Produces("application/json")
@Timed
@HTTPMonitoring
public Student getStudent(@PathParam("nic") String nic) {
return students.get(nic);
}
@POST
@Consumes("application/json")
@Metered
@HTTPMonitoring
public void addStudent(Student student) {
students.put(student.getNic(), student);
}
org.wso2.carbon.mss.example.service.StudentService.java

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<Agent>
<Name>Thrift</Name>
<DataEndpointClass>
org.wso2.carbon.databridge.agent.endpoint.thrift.ThriftDataEndpoint
</DataEndpointClass>
<TrustSore>client-truststore.jks</TrustSore>
<TrustSorePassword>wso2carbon</TrustSorePassword>
….
Thrift
This file is in charge to define how will MSS communicate with DAS

79. https://localhost:9443/monitoring/
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81. o http://kubernetes.io/v1.1/
o https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-
kubernetes
o https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2015/11/defining-
microservices.html
o http://www.slideshare.net/afkham_azeez/wso2con-
2015usintroductiontomssv2?related=1
o http://www.slideshare.net/afkham_azeez/wso2conus-2015-
introduction-to-wso2-microservices-server-mss?related=2

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83. o http://wso2.com/products/microservices-server/
o Lightweight and fast runtime
o 6MB pack size
o Starts within 400ms
o Based on the new WSO2 Carbon 5.0 kernel
o ~25MB memory consumption for the WSO2 MSS framework
o Simple development, deployment, and monitoring
o WSO2 Developer Studio-based tooling for generating microservices projects starting from a Swagger API
definition
o Built-in metrics and analytics APIs via WSO2 Data Analytics Server
o Tracing of requests using a unique message ID
o High scalability and reliability
o Transport based on Netty 4.0
o JWT-based security
o Custom interceptors
o Streaming input and streaming output support
o Comprehensive samples demonstrating how to develop microservices applications
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84. o Tutorial done!
o Next steps:
o Keep watching how WSO2 MSS will evolve
o Don’t miss our upcoming Webinars covering this and
even more
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85. o Please, if you need to understand more, or want
to talk to one of our specialists to help you and
your company’s projects, please contact us
here:
o http://wso2.com/contact/
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@jedgarsilva
http://www.wso2.com
Edgar Silva
edgar@wso2.com

87. Contact us !