Create Business Processes, Human Tasks, with many other features

Written by Denis Weerasiri

Suppose you need to write a business process/human task with some quality of service features like security, throttling caching etc. Or suppose you need inject ESB characteristics like service mediation, routing, load balancing, message enrichment etc. to incoming and outgoing message sequences.
Now what if you can do all these stuff with one server instance without using different products for different requirements, isn't it great?
WSO2 Carbon is capable on this due to its component architecture. Not only that you can do these stuff using Carbon UI very easily.
Due to WSO2 Carbon's OSGi based component architecture, you can customize WSO2 products based on your requirements.

Here I'm writing about how those stuff can be done in a very high level.

1. Security, Caching, Throttling to Business processes/Human tasks.
WSO2 BPS is inherently support this, and you can use the BPS Web UI to configure, monitor and maintain business processes with these features. The more interesting thing is; the whole set of WSO2 carbon products, have this unique interface. So once you get familiar with one product, you can use other products very easily. As an example, to enable throttling to service mashup, data service or SOAP service etc, user sees an unique interface.

Here are some screen-shots of the service dashboard.

Main service dashboard

Security configuration

Throttling configuration

Caching configuration

Try-it configuration

2. How to embed ESB like features
How to install ESB features - To use WSO2 ESB features what you need to do is install ESB related features to BPS. But I would prefer install BPS features into ESB as the number of BPS features are less than ESB features. As any WSO2 product is a set of OSGi components; there is no any difference in installing BPS features to ESB product and installing ESB features to BPS product.

Here is a screen-shot of feature management page

Now if you are already familiar with WSO2 ESB; using ESB features on business processes/ human tasks is no different from using ESB features on any other service.
eg - writing a proxy service for a business process and use message mediation in in-sequence and out-sequence. etc

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SSL Debugging - Part - II - Intercepting traffic between WSO2 Carbon FE and BE

All WSO2 products are based on WSO2 Carbon, which sits as the core for all of them.

We do have a clear Front-End [FE], Back-End [BE] separation - where the FE web application talks to the BE, via web service calls.

This benefits the end user - which adds the flexibility of developing his own client to the corresponding back end functionality in a language independent manner.

All UI components you see in the default distribution talk to the BE services via SOAP over HTTPS.

In case of digging in to an issue - since this is on HTTPS - it's hard to intercept the communication channel and figure what exact messages being passed from FE to BE.

This is how you can do it - to intercept messages flowing over SSL.

Prerequisites:
1. ssldump
2. The private key of WSO2 Carbon, in PEM format - you can download it from here.

Run the following command from where you have the private key, and start any WSO2 Carbon based product - say on HTTPS port 9443

:\> sudo ssldump -Ad -k wso2carbon.pem -p wso2carbon -i lo0 host localhost and port 9443

Make sure to have the correct interface set as per your system.[-i lo0] and start the ssldump before you start the server.

Now you can track all the messages between FE and BE in clear text.

1 8 0.0621 (0.0007) C>SV3.1(203) application_data
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POST /services/AuthenticationAdmin HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=UTF-8; action="urn:login"
User-Agent: Axis2
Host: localhost:9443
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

---------------------------------------------------------------
1 9 0.0626 (0.0005) C>SV3.1(399) application_data
---------------------------------------------------------------
173
    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
 <soapenv:Body>
  <ns1:login xmlns:ns1="http://authentication.services.core.carbon.wso2.org">
   <ns1:username>admin</ns1:username>
   <ns1:password>admin</ns1:password>
   <ns1:remoteAddress>0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0</ns1:remoteAddress>
  </ns1:login>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
0

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1 10 0.2071 (0.1445) S>CV3.1(544) application_data
---------------------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=37FC902E5E7C6C0D081E28B4DF067A76; Path=/; Secure
Content-Type: application/soap+xml;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:44:26 GMT

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    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
 <soapenv:Body>
  <ns:loginResponse
   xmlns:ns="http://authentication.services.core.carbon.wso2.org">
   <ns:return>true</ns:return>
  </ns:loginResponse>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

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