1. Development Made Easy with WSO2 App
Factory
Asanka Dissanayake (asankad@wso2.com)
Software Engineer
Nihanth Joshep (nihanth@wso2.com)
Senior Software Engineer

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. Typical Software Development
●Team management
●Creating a code repository
●Tracking issues
●Continuous Integration
●Life cycle Management
●Deployment
●Infrastructure management
●API subscriptions management
●Databases,DataSources Management

6. Where is the problem?
●Nothing is Interconnected
●User should setup everything manually.
●Code repository
●Continuous Integration
●Issue Tracking
●Deployment

7. How Appfactory makes development easy?
●Team management
●Creating a code repository
●Tracking issues
●Continuous Integration
●Life cycle Management
●Deployment
●Infrastructure management
●API subscriptions management
●Databases,DataSources Management
Takes care of everything

8. Infrastructure Management
●Infrastructure creation in a single click.
●Code Repository
●Continuous Integration tool
●Issue Tracker
● These are created during the application creation.

9. Infrastructure Management
●Following application types are supported in version 1.0.0.
●Web applications
●JAX-RS applications
●JAX-WS applications
●ESB
●BPEL
●Jaggery
●Data services

10. Team Management
●Users are added to different roles.
●Developers
●QA
●Dev ops
●Each role has different sets of permissions.
Application
Developers QA Dev ops
Application
Owner
Manages Users and Roles

11. Resource Management
●There are 3 kinds of resources in the context
●Datasources/Databases
●No need to maintain a separate Database Server.
●Creating a databases/datasources is quick and simple.

12. Resource Management
● APIs
● WSO2 API Manager is intergrated.
● Can be subscribed to APIs simply.

13. Resource Management
● Properties
● Users can defined name value pairs and can be used in the
anywhere of application such as End Points.
●
●Different resources (database, API, registry resources) at each stage
automatically wired to correct resource based on stage.

14. Appfactory Tooling Support
●Tooling support is provided with WSO2 Developer Studio.
●Appfactory perspective in Developer Studio for Intergrated
development experience.

15. Appfactory Tooling Support
● Switch to the Appfactory perspective, login using Appfactory
credentials and start developing applications.
● Checking/checkout code
● Trigger builds
● Deploy artifacts

16. Lifecycle Management
●Quick and simple branch creation.
●Builds can be triggered.
●Artifact can be deployed.

17. Lifecycle Management
● Software development lifecycles of the application are easily
manageable.
● Application can be managed through
● Development
● Testing
● Production lifecycles.

18. Lifecycle Management

19. 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
WSO2 App Factory unifies Open Source DevOps, Agile, and
Cloud

20. Demonstration

21. More Resources
Try out App Factory at :
https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com
User Guide: http://docs.wso2.
org/display/AF100/WSO2+App+Factory+Documentation
WSO2 Developer Studio Download
http://wso2.com/more-downloads/developer-studio/
WSO2 Developer Studio Documentation
http://docs.wso2.
org/display/DVS320/Working+with+App+Factory+Applications

22. Questions?

23. 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