Welcome to WSO2 Carbon User Guide

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 on the existing Carbon platform.

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

You can assemble your own products by combining the components and deploying them in a preferred architecture.

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

Context-Sensitive User Guides

The user interface of each component contains a link to its corresponding user guide. 
For example, to view the User Management user guide, open the User Management page and click the Help icon.

The context sensitive user guide

Figure1 : The link to the User Management user guide