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About WSO2 Carbon

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WSO2 Carbon is the award-winning, component-based, service oriented platform for the enterprise-grade WSO2 middleware products stack. It is 100% open source and delivered under Apache License 2.0. The WSO2 Carbon platform is lean, high-performant and consists of a collection of OSGi bundles.  

The WSO2 Carbon core platform hosts a rich set of middleware components encompassing capabilities such as security, clustering, logging, statistics, management and more. These are basic features required by all WSO2 products, which are developed on top of the base platform.

All WSO2 products are a collection of Carbon components. They have been developed simply by plugging various Carbon components which provide different features. The WSO2 Carbon Component Manager provides capability to extend the Carbon base platform by selecting the components which address your unique requirements and installing them with point-and-click simplicity. Therefore, by provisioning this innovative base platform, you can develop your own, lean middleware product which has remarkable flexibility to change as business requirements change.

What is new in this Release

WSO2 Carbon version 4.0.3 is the successor of version 4.0.2 and has several defect fixes included.

Enhancements:

  • Support for integrating multiple user stores with a running Carbon instance.

Known Issues

For a list of known issues in WSO2 Carbon 4.0.3, refer to the following link:

Community Resources

WSO2 is willing to provide you guidance for technical issues or questions regarding the WSO2 Carbon product. You can communicate with the WSO2 Carbon developers and users directly through the following mailing lists:

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and enhancement requests for WSO2 Carbon using the publicJIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON. You can also track their resolutions and comment on the progress.

Questions regarding WSO2 Carbon can also be raised through http://stackoverflow.com. Ensure that you tag the question with appropriate keywords such as WSO2 and Carbon so that our team can easily find your questions and provide answers.

For tutorials, articles, Webinars and similar resources on WSO2 Carbon, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank and search under the Resources menu.

Support Options

WSO2 also offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support during normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support. WSO2 is committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that support leverages the open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the products. For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support.