WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 (GA) Released!

WSO2 App Factory team is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0.

WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 is a multi-tenant, elastic and self-service Enterprise DevOps platform that enables multiple project teams to collaboratively create, run and manage enterprise applications. Combining complete application lifecycle management and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities, WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 streamlines the development process, and provides greater insight into the application life cycle while making it possible to develop, test, deploy and retire applications in few clicks. It also provides an easy way to discover and consume apps and APIs through a user-friendly storefront.

You can download this distribution from http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/

The online documentation is available at

https://docs.wso2.org/display/AF200/WSO2+App+Factory+Documentation

New Features

• Private Paas Integration

WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 runs on WSO2 Private PaaS 4.0.0 which is the complete, multi tenant, self-service, metered, middleware cloud built on top of the Apache Stratos PaaS 4.0 framework. WSO2 Private PaaS 4.0.0 delivers standard, on-premise, application, integration, data, identity, governance, and analytic Platform as a Service.

• Multi Tenancy Support

WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 offer Multi-tenancy, which let multiple organizations to maximise resource sharing to ensure optimal performance. This has been achieved mainly with multi tenanted Repository provider (Git), Build System (Jenkins) and Issue Tracker.

• Application Creation Using an Uploadable Artifact

Offers the ability to create applications by directly uploading a WAR or ZIP file (Currently supports Web Apps, JAX-RS, JAX-WS as WAR files and Jaggery as ZIP archives).

• Private Space for Developers

With WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0, developers can easily create and administer projects, automatically build applications, and continuously deliver applications.

While the application has a main repository and the build space, individual developers have the privilege to fork the main repository.

Along with each forked repository a personal build space will be created. This benefits the developer to carry out their tasks and merge them back to the main repo once he is fully satisfied with the implementation.

• Notification Wall

This handy feature is the most effective way to communicate important events and notifications between developers increases coordination and productivity.

These are categorized based on 3 severity types:

• Errors such as application build failure due to compilation errors, user provisioning errors
• Actions such as add foo user to bar application as devOps, create a new branch, fix a build break
• Information such as new branch is created, build successful, triggered an event to deploy.

There are 3 notifying mechanisms:

• Wall
• Guaranteed, real time error messages
• Email notifications

• Executive Dashboards

WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0’s executive and CIO dashboards provide the bird’s eye view of the status of projects across the company, based on pre defined aspects. This feature has provided by integrating WSO2 App Factory 2.0.0 with WSO2 BAM and WSO2 UES.

Key Features

• Provision application projects and infrastructure
• Accelerate development iterations
• Increase best practice adoption and establish agile application governance processes
• Adopt a cloud platform and offer PaaS
• Obtain an integrated devops experience
• Management dashboards for CXOs & project managers
• Customize to follow your best practices and standards
• Integrates with your existing infrastructure

Known Issues

https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APPFAC-2079

https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APPFAC-1847

https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APPFAC-2230

How You Can Contribute

• Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

 Developer list : [email protected] | Subscribe | Mail Archive

 User forum : StackOverflow

• Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature requests regarding WSO2 App Factory or in the Carbon base framework through the public WSO2 App Factory JIRA or Carbon JIRA.

Support

We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology. For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity http://wso2.com/support/

For more information about WSO2 App Factory Server, please see http://wso2.com/cloud/app-factory/.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 App Factory.