WSO2 delivers the only complete open source enterprise SOA middleware stack purpose-built as an integrated platform to support today’s heterogeneous enterprise environments—internally and in the cloud
Increasingly, managed APIs are at the heart of enterprise IT strategies for extending business processes and services to customers, partners, and other groups within the organization.
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) August 14, 2012
Increasingly, managed APIs are at the heart of enterprise IT strategies for extending business processes and services to customers, partners, and other groups within the organization. In a one-day workshop for IT architects and developers, WSO2 will examine:
· Best practices for delivering RESTful APIs, dynamic API service levels, and API governance.
· New monetization models that can be achieved by deploying a vertical platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and exposing business APIs to partners and customers.
· How to create an “AppFactory” to host partner applications while maintaining compliance, monetization, customer ownership, and project visibility.
The one-day workshop, “Deliver Your Business as an API and Create an AppFactory,” will be held in San Diego on Wednesday, August 29, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. To register, visit http://wso2.com/events/workshops/2012-august-san-diego-deliver-your-business-as-an-api-and-create-an-app-factory-workshop.
Maximizing API Assets
The workshop is designed for IT architects and developers seeking to build effective RESTful APIs that can be used across different business domains. It will explore how to expose heterogeneous back-end assets—such as services, data, processes and rules—as RESTful APIs in a quick, simple and architecturally sound manner, using the WSO2 API Management Platform based on award-winning WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware.
The workshop also will examine how organizations can go beyond foundational use cases to address API lifecycle development activities, monetize API assets, and offer personalized behavior across multiple business channels. Additionally, the event will preview the WSO2 AppFactory (currently in beta) and how it can be used with the WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform. Among the use cases explored will be how to create domain-specific PaaS environments, connect development with deployment, and present a partner ecosystem platform that offers personalized digital business behavior across multiple business channels and partners.
The workshop will be organized along six topics.
Beyond the APIs: API Store and Your Business as an API will discuss how enterprise API patterns can encourage API consumption and reuse. An API store process pattern enables potential consumers to discover APIs, match business requirements, subscribe to APIs, and gain access credentials. The “Your Business as an API” pattern delivers a cloud-based API hosting infrastructure, which augments the API by enabling multi-tenancy, self-service configuration, billing and metering, and control. Overall, this pattern covers how a vertical PaaS takes business APIs into the enterprise and out to partners, suppliers and customers.
Beyond the API: API Architecture and API Governance will look at how to meet business requirements by designing an elegant, consumable RESTful API using basic REST methods. The approach will follow REST methods, principles, and best practices for designing and building an API. It also will address how to enhance an API using RESTful techniques—such as Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOS) and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types. The session also will cover API governance basics.
Creating REST APIs will examine how to publish RESTful APIs that are exposed with a REST binding by using the Java REST API, JAX-RS, as well as how the WSO2 Application Server can be used to host JAX-RS.
Promoting, Managing, and Protecting APIs will review how the new WSO2 API Manager exposes APIs, binds wire protocols, implements Open Authorization (OAuth) authentication, monitors API usage, and monetizes API activity. The session will look at how developers can rapidly find, subscribe to, and evaluate APIs. It also will highlight how API providers can secure, protect and monitor API resource interactions.
API Adoption Plan will explore how to develop a pragmatic adoption plan to successfully build, publish, govern, configure, personalize and monetize APIs.
AppFactory Acceleration will present common software delivery and ecosystem challenges, and explain how an environment that connects software delivery gaps can accelerate business delivery. Additionally, the session will demonstrate how an AppFactory providing a domain-specific PaaS can increase business agility.
Workshop Presenters
Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism, works closely with developers, architects, and C-level executives to increase WSO2 technology adoption, improve the middleware platform, and maximize customer value. He has been charting a vision toward “Cloud 2020,” both in his current role and as a former research vice president at the Burton Group and Gartner. In his previous analyst roles, Chris also led research teams in advising Fortune 500 enterprise organizations and technology infrastructure vendors on adoption strategies, architecture, product selection, governance, and organizational alignment.
Asanka Abeysinghe, WSO2 director of solutions architecture, provides consulting and training for enterprise IT architects and developers. He also focuses on the company’s vertical market capabilities, including financial services. Asanka has more than a decade of experience implementing projects, from desktops and Web applications to highly scalable distributed systems and SOAs, mobile platforms, and business integration solutions.
About WSO2
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