Carbon Features

Feature	Description
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Governance Registry Integration	Govern and monitor large-scale deployments, including clustered servers and cloud implementations. Applied across the entire WSO2 Carbon middleware platform.
Distributed Caching	Supports the standard J-cache AP. Tested and proven in distributed environments for boosted performance.
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.