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Why you should attend WSO2Con Asia 2014

WSO2Con Asia 2014 , a must attend conference for anyone interested in WSO2 products, is just around the corner. The WSO2Con Asia 2014 is scheduled from March 24 to March 26 with two conference days and one pre-conference tutorial day. Have a look at WSO2Con Asia 2014 Agenda for all interesting talks and tutorials WSO2 has to offer. The conference will be held at Waters Edge , a popular venue in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Sri Lanka. Here are few reasons I can think of as to why you should attend the WSO2Con. WSO2 is the only company to have a complete set of open source middleware products built from scratch and WSO2Con is a good opportunity for you to learn how we make world-class products. Pre-conference tutorials will help you to get an understanding of how our stuff works. So, don't worry if you do not have much idea about the WSO2 products. See what WSO2 has to offer with WSO2 Mobile subsidiary. Meet the experts. Networking opportunities. Discover how WSO2 sof

What is WSO2 Private PaaS?

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In this blog post, I'm going to briefly introduce the WSO2 Private PaaS , an upcoming product from WSO2. Even though I'm writing about this now, the WSO2 Private PaaS term coined just few weeks after we donated WSO2 Stratos to Apache Foundation in June 2013. Apache Stratos (incubating) and WSO2 Private PaaS The WSO2 Private PaaS is built on top of the Apache Stratos (incubating) project, which is currently undergoing major architectural changes from the initial 3.0.0-incubating version. Following are few major changes you can expect in the next Apache Stratos (incubating) release. i.e. 4.0.0-incubating version. Using a message broker for communication among core Stratos components. Auto scaling now analyze real time data from cartridges like in flight request count and load average. Currently this data is analyzed using  WSO2 Complex Event Processor Load Balancer is now a cartridge in Stratos New Stratos Manager UI Stratos Manager now has RESTful service

Installing Oracle JDK 7 (Java Development Kit) on Ubuntu

There are many posts on this topic if you search on Google. This post just explains the steps I use to install JDK 7 on my laptop. Download the JDK from Oracle. The latest version as of now is Java SE 7u51. I'm on 64-bit machine, therefore I downloaded jdk-7u51-linux-x64 .tar.gz It's easy to get the tar.gz package as we just have to extract the JDK. I usually extract the JDK to /usr/lib/jvm directory. sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm cd /usr/lib/jvm/ sudo tar -xf ~/Software/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/javac" 1 sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/java" 1 sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so" "mozilla-javaplugin.so" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so" 1 sudo update-alternatives --install &q