WSO2 Developer Studio is a complete tooling platform where you can easily develop, deploy, test and debug your SOA applications. Developer Studio works in the popular open-source integrated development environment (IDE) Eclipse. By integrating with the award-winning WSO2 Carbon platform, Developer Studio enables you to create, deploy, and manage a variety of artifacts.

##Features

###Supports Edit, Build, Debug and Deploy Cycles of Applications on WSO2 Products

• Distributes as a standalone Eclipse-based product or extension bundles for Eclipse
• Support for editing most type of deployable artifacts
• Integrates to Maven for building
• Run test servers inside Eclipse and do source level debugging for applications that consist of multiple artifact types

###Support for Developing Apache Tomcat, Apache Axis2, Axis CXF, Apache Synapse and Apache Ode Applications

• Edit, build, debug, deploy Tomcat webapps, Axis2 or CXF services, RESTful services, Synapse mediation, and ODE processes
• Optionally deploy to WSO2 products for greater ease of use
• Uses widely used popular Eclipse plugins

###Supports Integration of Cloud Services

• Foundation for both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-enterprise integrations
• Combines multiple operations from multiple connectors along request, response, and error paths.
• Combines with regular mediators in a mediation flow to fine-tune business logic processing

###Supports Collaborative Development

• Integrates with any Eclipse-supported SCM (SVN, Git, Perforce, CVS, Mercurial and more)
• Shared development of artifacts belonging to a single application

###Supports Development Governance

• Integrates with WSO2 App Factory to facilitate management of application development lifecycles
• Browse, consume and produce registry resources with WSO2 Governance Registry
• Enables lifecycle governance of applications by separating code from configuration

###Supports Maven and Continuous Integration

• All build actions can be performed through the tool as well as via the command line using Apache Maven
• Enables easy integration with CI products such as Jenkins and Bamboo

###Supported Artifact Types

• Apache Axis2 services
• Apache CXF services
• JAX-WS services
• Service Meta artifact for security across all WSO2 middleware products
• Data services for WSO2 Data Services Server
• BPEL processes for Apache ODE and WSO2 Business Process Server
• ESB artifacts for Apache Synapse and WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
• Registry resources for WSO2 Governance Registry
• Webapps for Apache Tomcat and WSO2 Application Server
• Jaggery Applications for WSO2 User Engagement Server

###Easily Build Composite Applications

• Supports writing enterprise applications that consist of any collection of above artifacts as a single Composit Application aRchive (CAR)
• Composit Application Projects aggregate collection of Eclipse projects representing the artifacts into a “C-App” distribution project
• C-App project Maven root POM includes all artifacts and uses WSO2 Maven CAR Plugin to assemble to deployable CAR artifact
• CAR artifacts have application topology concept to manage deployment into different server clusters based on server roles

###Supports Direct Deployment to Local and Remote WSO2 Servers

• Enables deployment to any on-premise server and WSO2 Private PaaS

###Build Carbon Server Extension Types

• Develop any server extension such as WSO2 ESB mediators and WSO2 Governance Registry handlers

###Developer Friendly

• Integrates with standard Eclipse conventions and idioms

##How to Contribute

• Please report issues at WSO2 JIRA
• Send your pull requests to master branch

##Contact us WSO2 developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

• WSO2 Developers List : dev@wso2.org
• WSO2 Architecture List : architecture@wso2.org