WSO2 App Factory is a platform for managed application development that supports the entire application lifecycle from initial development through deployment and management. It provides automated infrastructure provisioning, tools for collaboration and continuous integration/delivery, and governance dashboards. The extensible platform allows adopting development processes like managing the application build and deploy pipeline through tools like Jenkins.

1. Delivering Best Apps
with Efficiency
Ajanthan Balachandiran(ajanthan@wso2.com)
Software Engineer
Janaka Ranabahu (janaka@wso2.com)
Senior Software Engineer

2. About WSO2
● Providing the only complete open source componentized cloud
platform
○ Dedicated to removing all the stumbling blocks to enterprise agility
○ Enabling you to focus on business logic and business value
● Recognized by leading analyst firms as visionaries and leaders
○ Gartner cites WSO2 as visionaries in all 3 categories of application
infrastructure
○ Forrester places WSO2 in top 2 for API Management
● Global corporation with offices in USA, UK & Sri Lanka
○ 200+ employees and growing
● Business model of selling comprehensive support &
maintenance for our products

3. 150+ globally positioned support customers

4. What is WSO2 App Factory
●Platform for managed application development
●Support application from cradle to grave
●Manage infrastructure
●Provide automated configurable devops and governance
●Hosted as a cloud service
●100% Open source – Apache 2 licence

5. Delivering App with Efficiency
● Delivering app with efficiency depends following aspect of
the development process
■ Collaborating
■ Developing
■ Building and Deploying
■ Governance
● WSO2 App Factory is designed to facilitate above aspects
during software development process
● Extensible architecture of the WSO2 App Factory enables
us to adopt above aspects based on the environment
■ BPELs
■ Plugins

6. Automated Infrastructure Provisioning
● Self service for infrastructure creation
■ Git repository
■ Pre-configured Jenkins job
■ Issue Tracking project
■ Runtime for each development stage
● Focus on application immediately
■ No need to wait for infrastructure
● Scalable and shared infrastructure
■ Shared infrastructure using various cloud technologies
● Your choices of proven tools
■ Version control GIT
■ Continuous build Jenkins
■ Issue tracking Redmine

7. Project and
Team
Management
Software
development
workflow
Governance and
Compliance
Development
Dashboards
Develop Code
Issue TrackingSource Control
Continuous
Build
Continuous
Integration
Test Automation
Continuous
Deployment
WSO2 App Factory unifies Open Source DevOps, Agile, and
Cloud

8. Collaborate

9. Collaborate : Build Your Team
●Users are added to different roles.
●Developers
●QA
●Devops
●Each role has different sets of permissions.
Application
Developers QA Devops
Application
Owner
Manages Users and Roles

10. Develop

11. Develop : Start from Sample App
●Manage your source code using GIT
●Use Maven as your build tool
●Start with Sample project
●Deploy in Dev runtime and do developer testing
●Manage your bugs using Issue tracker

12. Develop : Resource Management
●There are 3 kinds of resources in the context
●Data sources/Databases
●No need to maintain a separate Database Server.
●Creating a databases/datasources is quick and simple.

13. Develop : Resource Management
● APIs
● WSO2 API Manager is integrated.
● Can be subscribed to APIs simply.

14. Develop :Resource Management
● Properties
● Users can defined name value pairs and can be used in the
anywhere of application such as End Points.
●
●Different resources (database, API, registry resources) at each stage
automatically wired to correct resource based on stage.

15. Develop : Appfactory Tooling Support
●Tooling support is provided with WSO2 Developer Studio.
●Appfactory perspective in Developer Studio for Integrated
development experience.

16. Develop : Appfactory Tooling Support
● Switch to the Appfactory perspective, login using Appfactory
credentials and start developing applications.
● Checking/checkout code
● Trigger builds
● Deploy artifacts

17. Build

18. Build : Single Place to manage Build & Deploy
●Quick and simple branch creation.
●Builds can be triggered.
●Artifact can be deployed.

19. Build:Jenkins to Do Continuous Integration
● Pre-configured jenkins job based on app type
○ Configured to build with test
○ Configured to build on every commit
○ Configured to deploy on every successful build

20. Deploy

21. Deploy : Deploy Apps in Isolated Environment
●Stratos based Runtime per environment

22. Govern

23. Govern : Lifecycle Management
● Software development lifecycles of the application are easily
manageable.
● Application can be managed through
● Development
● Testing
● Production lifecycles.

24. Govern : Lifecycle Management

25. Govern : Management Dashboard for CXOs
● Development dashboards deliver at a glance view of
projects’ status, lifecycle, activity, and health
● Application and API subscriptions and usage
● DevOps KPI monitoring via integration with WSO2 Business
Activity Monitor

26. Demonstration

27. More Resources
Try out App Factory at :
https://appfactorypreview.wso2.com
User Guide: http://docs.wso2.
org/display/AF100/WSO2+App+Factory+Documentation
WSO2 Developer Studio Download
http://wso2.com/more-downloads/developer-studio/
WSO2 Developer Studio Documentation
http://docs.wso2.
org/display/DVS320/Working+with+App+Factory+Applications

28. Questions?

29. Engage with WSO2
●Helping you get the most out of your deployments
●From project evaluation and inception to development
and going into production, WSO2 is your partner in
ensuring 100% project success