WSO2 ESB Quick Start Guide

WSO2 ESB has a quick start guide.

However, if you want to have a very quick sneak peek at how easy to work with WSO2 ESB, that quick start is a bit lengthy.

So here are few steps to follow and get a feel how quick it can be to get going with WSO2 ESB.

1. Download WSO2 ESB, binary zip file; Unzip the binary pack
2. Make sure you have set the JAVA_HOME environment variable (e.g. set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk1.5.0_14)
3. cd to wso2esb-1.7\bin
4. Run: wso2-esb.bat
   1. On Linux run wso2-esb.sh
5. Access https://SamisaLaptop:9444/esb to with Web browser ensure it is started.
   1. Click on "Sign In" button on the right hand side to dig into more management console details.
6. cd to wso2esb-1.7\samples\axis2Server
7. Run: axis2server.bat
   1. Note: you need to have JAVA_HOME set
8. cd wso2esb-1.7\samples\axis2Server\src\SimpleStockQuoteService
9. Run: ant (yes you need Apache Ant)
10. cd wso2esb-1.7\samples\axis2Client
11. Run: ant stockquote -Dsymbol=IBM -Dmode=quote -Daddurl=http://localhost:9000/soap/SimpleStockQuoteService -Dprxurl=http://localhost:8280
12. Sign into the management console if you did not already as mentioned in step 6. Click on "System Logs" link under "Monitor" sub heading on the left hand side menus on the management console
    1. Note the request message logged at the end of the log. 

 

You just saw a proxy service in action with ESB.