# Version 3.6.0

## About WSO2 Business Process Server

WSO2 Business Process Server (BPS) is an easy-to-use Open Source Business Process Server that executes business processes written following WS-BPEL and WS-Human Task standards or BPMN(Business Process Modelling Notation) standards. WS-BPEL is the defacto standard for composing multiple synchronous and asynchronous web services into collaborative and transactional process flows which increase the flexibility and agility of your Service Oriented Architecture. WS-Human Task allows people activities to be integrated with business processes. WSO2 BPS is powered by Apache ODE and available under Apache Software License v2.0. WSO2 BPS provides a complete Web based graphical console to deploy, manage and monitor business process and process instances. BPMN is a business process modelling language, which has both an XML serialization and a graphical notation. Processes modeled in BPMN can be executed in workflow engines, at the same time understandable to business users. Supporting BPMN (based on Activiti) in WSO2 BPS allows all WSO2 platform users to benefit from the advantages of a highly expressive workflow language.

WSO2 BPS is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform (Middleware a' la carte), and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your SOA architecture. This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those features without any trouble. In other words, this product can be customized to your SOA needs.

## About WSO2 Carbon

WSO2 Carbon is a component based Enterprise SOA platform. The design of WSO2 Carbon focuses on separating the key functionality of the SOA platform into separate pluggable Carbon components that can be mixed and matched, like customizable building blocks. This allows you to add only the functionality you need to start up, and continue to add product capabilities as your requirements grow. This helps a business to quickly adapt to changes.

OSGi is used as the underlying core modularization technology to build the Carbon platform. The Carbon framework is shipped with Eclipse Equinox by default, but can be supported on Spring dm Server, Felix or Knoplerfish if required. The OSGi technology even allows you to write your business functionality as an OSGi component and deploy it in the existing Carbon platform.

For a quick start on using the WSO2 Carbon platform, the Carbon components are pre-assembled into the following products:

- WSO2 Governance Registry
- WSO2 Application Server
- WSO2 Enterprise Integrator
- WSO2 Business Process Server
- WSO2 Identity Server
- WSO2 Data Services Server
- WSO2 Business Rules Server

You can assemble your own products by combining components and deploying them in a preferred architecture. Now WSO2 Carbon has the P2 based provisioning support as well. Please visit http://wso2.org/library for more information.

The WSO2 Carbon platform gives maximum flexibility to adapt the middleware to your enterprise architecture, rather than adapt your architecture to the middleware.

## About WSO2

WSO2 is a Open Source technology company building Open Source middleware platforms for Web services and SOA. WSO2 delivers integrated middleware stacks based on components developed at Apache, offering industry leading performance and convenience for customers.

Founded in August 2005 by pioneers in Web services and Open Source, WSO2 engineers contribute heavily to many key Apache Web services projects.

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