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Attendees: Aws Al-Attar, Joel Banez, Glenn Donaldson, Ashish Pandit, Dave Perhne, Jon Terrones

UMICH - Dave Perhne and Aws Al-Attar

WSO2 Status:

Went through WSO2 Implementation of API Manager/ESB/Data Services via Quick Start. Picked use case and went through implementation via Quick Start.
UMICH had needs for custom security mediation and was able to have WSO2 assist in development, specifically mapping to their identity provider
WSO2 was able to patch during Quick Start. 25K
WSO2 Developers took tasks back to WSO2
if had to do it again, would be more specific of defining use cases, too generic. Can share use case doc
API Manager had an issue with Javascript injection
UMICH - live last Friday

Take aways from WSO2 Con:

Focus on Developer Studio and it's deployment practices seems to be the preferred methodology for integration work, i.e. migrate proxy services into Dev Studio

Followup question:

UCSD - Ashish Pandit

WSO2 Status:

Take Aways from WSO2 Con:

Limitation of Development Studio:
- No visual data mapping?
- In testing, did not see a solid unit testing capabilities. Talked to WS02 product manager and they are aware of that
- No step by step debug tools. On WSO2 agenda.
Liked AppFactory Demo. Potential to manage the app life cycle and customers via that application

Westmont - Joel Banez

WSO2 Status:

Questions:

Did UMICH feel that they got enough out of Quick Start. Yes.
Dave P. mentioned that next time they would have examined more complex/detailed use cases
Anyone using any of the SalesForce connectors? No.

OSU - Glenn Donaldson

Interested in whether or not people have added a layer of abstraction to their Peoplesoft services using WS02.
No one currently using WSO2 in that manner, but we talked a bit on the fragility of not doing this layer of abstraction.

Follow up question after Google Hangout re: what people are planning on doing for support structure.
- Can you share your current or planned support model, staffing roles & numbers for your WSO2 deployment?
- What unit/department is the support in? Is this part of your project request flow?
- Do you have a business case for ESB or SOA that you can share?

UW Madison - Jon Terrones

WSO2 Status:

Test infrastructure of ESB and Governance Registry cluster deployed. Build out of production infrastructure underway.

Take Aways from WSO2 Con:

Interest in WSO2's new campus in Bloomington, IN for support purposes
Liked App Factory's ability to assist in the entire software development lifecycle
- Takes away burden of provisioning source code management, issue tracking, run time environments, etc.
- Hit home with the amount of time it takes to provision infrastructure here at DoIT
- Provides a store like facade for promoting apis to customers
Deployment techniques
- Use of Hazelcast for cluster management
- Dropping of registry based deployment sync in favor of SVN
Interesting partnership with cloud dev community/codeenvy.
- Basically WSO2 specific tooled Eclipse in the cloud.
- Minimizes time to development for developers who struggle with building out their development environment dependencies and configuration.
Support
- WSO2 doesn't care if you run without support
- Maintains that serious customers will benefit
- Immediate fixes

Future: Once a month meetings via Google Hangouts or similar.