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New Ballerina Integrator in WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0 Lets Developers Apply Agile Methods to Integration for the First TimeMountain View, CA, Oct. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Integration is becoming an integral part of software development as the applications driving today’s digital businesses combine data, events, and services from within the organization, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. As a result, IT organizations increasingly need to adopt a range of integration styles and architectural integration models while keeping pace with agile app development. WSO2 addresses this demand with today’s introduction of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0, the open-source, cloud-native, hybrid integration platform for APIs, data, and event streams. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0 has been extensively re-architected for the requirements of modern software development. It is the only solution that provides a choice of approaches for either code-driven or graphical configuration-driven integration, plus a choice of styles for decentralized microservices, cloud-native, or centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) style architectures. The platform is the first to use a code-driven approach to integration through the Ballerina programming language, enabling developers to apply agile methodologies to integration for the first time. Key components of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0 include:
With WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0, enterprise application development and integration teams now have the functionality in a single, hybrid integration platform to help them adopt emerging best practices for delivering modern, distributed cloud-native applications. “Using centralized integration delivery teams of specialists who build flows on an ESB is insufficient when faced with streaming analytics, hybrid cloud environments, software as a service (SaaS), agile architecture and process automation,” according to the Gartner report, Essential Skills for Modern Integration Architecture1. The report further notes that “Cloud platforms, modern application architecture and new data processing techniques require you to create more integration flows in less time. To accomplish this, application technical professionals must learn the API, agile and cloud integration skills identified in this research.” “WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0, the first platform to leverage the Ballerina language, offers a revolutionary approach to closing the integration gaps often left by traditional ESBs in supporting modern, cloud-native app development,” said Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO and co-founder. “Whether connecting services, events or data, developers now have the flexibility to configure or code integrations into their work; adopt agile approaches to integration and begin to merge the worlds of development, integration, and DevOps.” Cloud-Native Integration for Modern Apps Ballerina Integrator Ballerina Integrator simplifies integration by offering high-level abstractions to represent services, endpoints, and network data types, while providing a sequence diagram-based visualization of interactions. Since Ballerina is a programming language, developers can apply agile methodologies to integration and speed the development time of integration projects. Additionally, they can leverage the language’s higher-level abstractions to quickly integrate applications rather than spend time writing boilerplate code. Micro-Integrator Streaming Integrator Functionality for Building, Deploying and Managing Integrations Tooling to Build Integrations Micro-Integrator is supported by Integration Studio, which offers a graphical drag-and-drop experience for building integrations along with seamless integration of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Additionally, it provides code-driven integration tooling based on Visual Studio Code for developers who prefer this approach. Native Support for Kubernetes Deployments New and Enhanced Features for Managing Integrations Most IT organizations already have preferred solutions for analytics and business process management (BPM). Therefore, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator 7.0 has been enhanced to support the use of third-party applications, such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK for analytics, and Camuda for BPM. Additionally, existing customers can use the latest versions of the Integration Analytics and WSO2 Business Process Server components of WSO2 Enterprise Server 6.X, which WSO2 will continue to support and update. Availability and Support WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is backed by WSO2 Subscription, which features access to WSO2 Update for continuous delivery of bug fixes, security updates, and performance enhancements, along with WSO2 Support for 24x7 support. Unified pricing means customers can simply buy a WSO2 Subscription and choose the hosting model—cloud, on-premises or hybrid—based on their preferences. Information on WSO2 Subscription and other service and support offerings can be found at https://wso2.com/consultant-services. 1Gartner, Essential Skills for Modern Integration Architecture, by Matt Brasier, April 29, 2019 About WSO2 Trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Shifali Erasmus Kinetic.PR for WSO2 [email protected] Mobile: 650-544-6424 |