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A custom deployer extending the Apache Axis2 deployer framework is responsible for reading this data service descriptor and creating a data service. High performant XML processing capabilities offered by Apache AXIOM is used for generating XML responses on the fly. Some of the third party open source projects used by the WSO2 Data Services Server includes Apache DBCP for managing connection pools for Relational Databases, Google Spreadsheet Data API for reading Google Spreadsheets, OpenCSV for CSV file support and Apache POI for MS-Excel support.
The Data Services Server's Management console makes comprehensive management, configuration and monitoring possible though a simple, user-friendly GUI. The GUI is done on a layered architecture by separating the back-end and front-end concerns. This allows the user to connect to multiple back-ends using a single GUI console. The Data Services Server also comes with different types of tools for running, testing and monitoring data services.