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Go to http://wso2.com/products/enterprise-service-bus/ and download the binary distribution, or click the link at the bottom of the page to access the source code. WSO2 ESB is distributed completely free of charge.
Does WSO2 ESB
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have performance comparisons with other popular ESBs?
Yes, the results of several rounds of performance comparisons are available in the following article: http://wso2.org/library/articles/2013/01/esb-performance-65.
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A proxy service is a virtual service hosted on the ESB. It can accept requests from service clients, just like a real Web service. A proxy service can process requests and forward them to an actual Web service (back-end service) to be further processed. The responses coming back from the back-end service can be routed back to the original client. Proxy services are mostly used to expose an existing service over a different transport, format or QoS configuration.
Does WSO2 ESB
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have support for transactions?
Yes, it has support for distributed transaction, local JMS transactions, and distributed JMS transactions.
Does WSO2 ESB
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have support for PEPPOL?
Yes, you can use WSO2 ESB in an Access point.
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