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WSO2 AppServer is an enterprise-ready application server based on the WSO2 Carbon platform. Being the successor of the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS), WSO2 Application Server (AS) supports web application deployment and management in addition to its web services management capabilities. Coupled with WSO2 Carbon features, users now have the capability to manage their applications that range from Web Services to web applications in a unified manner within the AppServer management console itself.
Based on the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Web services specifications support secure, reliable and transactional integration based on the concept of loose coupling, which is inherently scalable. Many vendors have "bolted on" support for Web services and XML to their existing proprietary product solutions. WSO2 has created a new platform that cuts out unnecessary layers, supporting the full WS-* stack in a simple, clean, lightweight model, making it easier to develop, deploy and run applications.
When it comes to supporting web applications, WSO2 AppServer internally utilizing Apache Tomcat and capable of hosting any kind of web application which is deployable on Tomcat. In addition to that, these web applications can inherit features like Authentication/Authorization, User management etc. from the WSO2 Carbon platform.
WSO2 AppServer comes with full support for XML, SOAP, WSDL, and supports reliable, secure communications. WSO2 AppServer makes it simple and effective to create, consume and manage Web services.
WSO2 AppServer brings together a number of open source projects into a single, seamless, easy-to-use offering. Instead of having to download the different parts of the Apache Web services stack separately and assemble them together, we have done that for you and offer you a single integrated package with lot of additional features which are inherited from the WSO2 Carbon platform.
WSO2 AppServer is a fully open source product. WSO2 contributes to the Apache Software Foundation's Web services project through a combination of leading open source components. Together with our own integration code, WSO2 offers production quality open source software. All our integration code including the unified management console is available under the Apache Software License version 2.0.
The complete list of features is available in the Release Note.
See the full list of documents with instructions on installation, administration, sample guides and how to use the tools packaged with WSO2 AppServer.
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