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| Core SOA Features | - Mechanisms to provide and consume services, message mediation, service orchestration, service governance, business process management and service monitoring.
- Extensive support for enterprise integration patterns.
- Support for industry standards such as WS-*, REST and other binary and non-binary protocols.
- In-built Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities such as security, reliable messaging, and throttling.
- Clear separation of UI components and internal framework which manages deployment artifacts, allowing clear separation of concerns, better memory utilization and improved security.
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Extensible and Future-Proof | - Because of its OSGi-based architecture, WSO2 Carbon (or any Carbon-based product) is easily extensible on-the-fly, in a simple, point-and-click deployment.
- Start with a lean core and click to install only what is needed.
- Choose from more than 200 (and growing) features to plug in functionality as and when new business needs demand.
- Clean separation of functionality with minimum dependency for a rich SOA model.
- Equinox P2 provisioning automatically identifies dependencies and installs them for you.
- Flexibility to deploy other OSGi bundles from existing open source projects to custom-coded OSGi components.
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| Flawless Deployment Flexibility | - Same code base in both standalone mode of WSO2 Carbon (as well as all Carbon-based products) and in private and public cloud deployments.
- Create multi-tenant-aware applications via the Carbon API without worrying about underlying complexities.
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| Quality of Service Features | - Supports highly-available deployments.
- Horizontal scaling via clustering with stateless server architecture.
- Dynamic discovery of services using WS-Discovery.
- Lazy loading via ghost deployers.
- Apache Zookeeper based co-ordination support.
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| Synchronizing Deployment Artifacts | - Apache Subversion (SVN) based Deployment Synchronizer to manage the deployment artifacts for both products and services.
- Additionally supports WSO2 Governance Registry as a repository.
- Large number of server artifacts can be deployed easily in one go.
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| Complete User Management Capability | - Supports authentication and role-based authorization.
- Supports pluggable heterogeneous user stores such as LDAP, Active Directory, and JDBC, using custom extension points.
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| Governance Registry Integration | - Govern and monitor large-scale deployments, including clustered servers and cloud implementations.
- Applied across the entire WSO2 Carbon middleware platform.
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| Distributed Caching | - Supports the standard J-cache AP.
- Tested and proven in distributed environments for boosted performance.
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| Lightweight, Developer-Friendly and Easy-to-Deploy | - GUI, command-line and IDE-based tools for artifact generation, development and testing.
- Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, the Eclipse-based IDE.
- User-friendly management console.
- Server customization via feature provisioning.
- Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private or public cloud.
- Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools.
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