With WSO2 Registry we have a REST API which users can use to implement their own features for the registry based on our Atom Publishing Protocol Client (RemoteRegisty instance). Currently most of the User interfaces are implemented based on Web Services and we are calling most of the REST API methods inside those web services but we did not offer a complete web services API for our clients even though we have used web services method which are scattered among various User Interface bundles in OSGi Environment of our platform.I was able to do this implementation which is identical to our REST API and users can implement their own web services using our WS-API. We are in the process of testing those API calls through web services and if anybody is going play new WS-API please be kind enough to report any issue when you are dealing at runtime. If you are willing to use our WS-API you can alway have a look in to our carbon components repository and have to build the registry module to use the WS API.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Resource Caching for WSO2 Registry
Once I started employing at WSO2 I was assigned to work with WSO2 Registry which is again another useful product ships Under carbon platform. This is a Registry which users can keep all the resource in their SOA platform and manage all of those resource in elegant manner. As the very first job I was assigned was to implement resource caching for the WSO2 Registry.
In Registry every content is treated as Resource which is having a defined path for each resource to identify it. With resource caching when a particular user do a get operation for a particular resource first it checks in the Hashmap resurce is already cached or not so that it can find whether the user is going to do a new get operation or not. If user is doing a new get operation it adds that resource in to the Hashmap after checking the maximum size of the hashmap and directly get the resource from the serverside and return it. If that resource is already in the Hashmap it send the last modified date to the server side. In the server code it check whether somebody modified or not by comparing metadata of the resource and send a 304 HTTP header if nobody modified. If we get a 304 for the Remote Registry we just give the cached resource rather getting it from our server.
When users are dealing with large datasets this approach uses the users bandwith in an efficient manner rather getting resources from the serverside each and everytime user request for resources. You will be able to get this feature with our next release or if you are using our SVN repository it's already available for you.
In Registry every content is treated as Resource which is having a defined path for each resource to identify it. With resource caching when a particular user do a get operation for a particular resource first it checks in the Hashmap resurce is already cached or not so that it can find whether the user is going to do a new get operation or not. If user is doing a new get operation it adds that resource in to the Hashmap after checking the maximum size of the hashmap and directly get the resource from the serverside and return it. If that resource is already in the Hashmap it send the last modified date to the server side. In the server code it check whether somebody modified or not by comparing metadata of the resource and send a 304 HTTP header if nobody modified. If we get a 304 for the Remote Registry we just give the cached resource rather getting it from our server.
When users are dealing with large datasets this approach uses the users bandwith in an efficient manner rather getting resources from the serverside each and everytime user request for resources. You will be able to get this feature with our next release or if you are using our SVN repository it's already available for you.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
First Job Experience at WSO2 Inc
I was able to get an offer from one of the leading open source software company in Sri Lanka as well as in the world. Even with the recession getting an offer from company is a big deal for a fresh graduate. I got my first offer from WSO2 Inc which is almost developing complete SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform.Most of the development works are done in Sri Lankan office though we have offices in US and UK. We have basically two streams of products with Java and Scripting-C products. Main Java product is WSO2 Carbon which is a complete SOA platform with lot of bundles integrated all together using OSGi to give a collection of implementations to have a single platfor for SOA. During these days I'm trying to catch up the works going on WSO2 which is a really cool experience for a fresh graduate since I have whole a lot of thing to be learn by myself.
I'm suppose to work with one of the major product called WSO2 Registry which is a registry implementation for SOA platform which help to make a complex unmanagable system more structured and managable. This is not a product which is very specific for SOA management but we can use to manage our resource generally. I will be writing more technical blogs in future about Registry work and my technical experience I'm getting during my time at WSO2.
I'm suppose to work with one of the major product called WSO2 Registry which is a registry implementation for SOA platform which help to make a complex unmanagable system more structured and managable. This is not a product which is very specific for SOA management but we can use to manage our resource generally. I will be writing more technical blogs in future about Registry work and my technical experience I'm getting during my time at WSO2.
Trips to Amsterdam and New Orleans
Fortunately I was able to travel overseas two times during my undergraduate time simply because I contributed over Apache Software Foundation during the time I spend at the university as an undergraduate. It was a really really cool experience for me since I haven't been in abroad before that. I went to New Orleans in Louisiana in November 2008 and Amsterdam in March. But due to the touch schedule at the university I couldn't write about both.
My first to participate in ApacheCon US 2008 and I had to give a talk in one of the sessions and it was all about Apache Qpid which was the project I got the committership and now I'm a PMC member for Apache Qpid. That was a very strange experience for me to travel over US alone and I was shocked when I landed over Atlanta AirPort since all most all the people who were around to me was foriengers and I never being to that kind of a scenario before in my life. During my time at the ApacheCon I was able meet lots of Apache folks and discuss certain thing which are technical and really helpful for me for my career and I was able add lot of professional contacts. Whole trip went pretty decent other than delaying my baggage during my arrival to US but now I feel it's good since I got enough cloths from one of the WSO2 collegue and got 50$ from the AirLine.
Now the Amsterdam trip was again a cool experience and opportunity I got from ASF travel assistance committee and I'm really grateful to ASF giving me all of these opportunities. Amsterdam is a damn beautiful city and most of the people are riding their own bycicles and no trafic in the city at all. When I was there it was very cold but I love that weather since I don't want to wash my cloths :-) Most of the people used to close their shops when it comes to 6 in the evening and they go home and enjoy. Almost all the houses are very much similar to houses in Galle Dutch fort so those architectural thing were not unfamiliar for me since my home town in Galle. I was able to get a real experience with the streats I used to see in films with lot of shops around the road and flow of the road is not build with tar but with some kind of bricks. I have noticed couple of differences between Europe and US during the two weeks of my time in Europe and US. US people are friendlier than Europians but they Europian people enjoy their lives and less traffic and little bit of less complex life stile than US. And most of europians used to speak something other than English and sometimes it's hard to do the work in English (All the ATM machines were in Dutch).
I have lot more to tell about my experience but that's all I can write due to busy schedule with my first job which is one of unmemorable opportunity I got in my life.
My first to participate in ApacheCon US 2008 and I had to give a talk in one of the sessions and it was all about Apache Qpid which was the project I got the committership and now I'm a PMC member for Apache Qpid. That was a very strange experience for me to travel over US alone and I was shocked when I landed over Atlanta AirPort since all most all the people who were around to me was foriengers and I never being to that kind of a scenario before in my life. During my time at the ApacheCon I was able meet lots of Apache folks and discuss certain thing which are technical and really helpful for me for my career and I was able add lot of professional contacts. Whole trip went pretty decent other than delaying my baggage during my arrival to US but now I feel it's good since I got enough cloths from one of the WSO2 collegue and got 50$ from the AirLine.
Now the Amsterdam trip was again a cool experience and opportunity I got from ASF travel assistance committee and I'm really grateful to ASF giving me all of these opportunities. Amsterdam is a damn beautiful city and most of the people are riding their own bycicles and no trafic in the city at all. When I was there it was very cold but I love that weather since I don't want to wash my cloths :-) Most of the people used to close their shops when it comes to 6 in the evening and they go home and enjoy. Almost all the houses are very much similar to houses in Galle Dutch fort so those architectural thing were not unfamiliar for me since my home town in Galle. I was able to get a real experience with the streats I used to see in films with lot of shops around the road and flow of the road is not build with tar but with some kind of bricks. I have noticed couple of differences between Europe and US during the two weeks of my time in Europe and US. US people are friendlier than Europians but they Europian people enjoy their lives and less traffic and little bit of less complex life stile than US. And most of europians used to speak something other than English and sometimes it's hard to do the work in English (All the ATM machines were in Dutch).
I have lot more to tell about my experience but that's all I can write due to busy schedule with my first job which is one of unmemorable opportunity I got in my life.
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