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WSO2 builds Gadget Server for dynamic content


By David Worthington
December 17, 2009 — 
Google Gadgets is popular on the open Web, but many enterprises do not take advantage of dynamic content inside of the firewall. WSO2, a maker of open-source SOA middleware, has taken the technology and created a new Gadget Server, which it released yesterday.

WSO2 Gadget Server is built upon Apache Shindig, an Apache incubation project that uses Google's OpenSocial container (the technology behind Google Gadgets) as its core rendering technology to build gadgets, said WSO2 CTO Paul Fremantle.

WSO2 has added personalization to Shindig with the ability to store settings, and it allows administrators to set restrictions.

The Gadget Server can be installed in a data center or as a virtual machine image run on Amazon Web Services, or within a private cloud, Fremantle said. "It is a portal out of the box" that is simpler to develop and install than portlets he added.

Portlets, Fremantle said, require Java programmers and must be installed into portal servers by an administrator, whereas gadgets are pure HTML and JavaScript wrapped in a simple XML container. "Get anyone who is a Web programmer, and they can build a gadget."

Developers can create their own gadgets or choose nearly any Google Gadget from the Web to run on the Gadget Server, Fremantle said. "A few won't work that are Google-specific," he added.

The Gadget Server enables organizations to aggregate content, create content feeds, and integrate LDAP or Active Directory services, Fremantle said.

WSO2 has developed a Business Activity Monitor (BAM) solution that is built using Gadget Server as its user interface. It uses agents to collect data asynchronously from the WSO2 stack or to pull data from external data sources using publish/subscribe. Transactions can just be traced for analysis, or data can be processed.

The BAM solution receives live analytics from the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus. It offers analytics to help organizations identify patterns and trends, Fremantle said. Over time, the company will integrate its BAM solution with its rules engine, so that if "sales are down and cost are up, companies can fire the CEO," he quipped.

The WSO2 Gadget Server and BAM solution are free and open source. Product support for the servers starts at US$8,000 per server.


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