Wednesday, September 14, 2011

[WSO2Con] Building a Mobile POS Solution with WSO2 Carbon and Apple iPod Touch

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

"Building a Mobile POS Solution with WSO2 Carbon and Apple iPod Touch" was presented by Thilanka Kiriporuwa, Head of Human Resources and Operations, Odel in the WSO2Con 2011, day-2. Kasun Indrasiri from WSO2 joined Thilanka in this session. This session speaks something about ODEL which is a key player in Sri Lankan market. Hence it naturally grabbed most of our interests (as Sri Lankans).


In this session Thilanka explained how the MobilePOS application will be used in ODEL outlets, specifically the one in Alexandra Place, Colombo-07. The next time we go to ODEL, we will see this in action, providing improved user experience, eliminating those long queues during the busy Sundays.


On the other hand, Kasun was explaining the architecture of the Mobile POS solution, the technology behind it, and how WSO2 helped to achieve that. ODEL MobilePOS is exposed to the backend using JSON. The MobilePOS application was developed using Objective C. It talks to barcode scanner and credit card readers using APIs by LineaPro.



"Even if you want to change the app to run on Android, nothing to change in code level for ODEL MobilePOS app, thanks to JSON," said Kasun, when answering one of the questions from the audience regarding why Apple iPhone was chosen over other mobile platforms such as Android. He also explained how the reporting component from WSO2 is used to generate various reports at ODEL.




For the interested readers, a white paper on this ODEL case study can be downloaded from the ODEL Case Study page in OxygenTank.



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WSO2Con-2011 Day 02

Written by Denis Weerasiri

During the day 02 at WSO2Con-2011, I was able to join some of the sessions. Today the keynote speaker was Sastry Malladi who is a distinguished architect from eBay. The speech was about Service Orientation and how eBay has successfully been able to pioneer and leverage service orientation.

Azeez talked about "Open source middleware for Clouds" and elaborated the underneath architecture in WSO2 StrtosLive PaaS. Also he described how cloud-native attributes like Cloud native attributes like distributed/dynamically wired, elastic, multi-tenant, self-service, granularly metered and billed, incrementally deployed and tested enabled in Stratos.

Shankar did a very comprehensive demonstration on creating an applications for StratosLive. Demonstration included most of the features like creating tenants, user import, web-app/service development and deployment, securing web-apps, creating SaaS on top of StratosLive etc.
Also the demonstration included features related WSO2 Relational Storage Service (RSS).

Then Senaka talked about the SOA governance with WSO2 products. Next presentation was from Tharind who talked about concepts around rewamped WSO2 Business Activity Monitoring(BAM) framework.
"Security in Action", one of the interesting session from Prabath, reviewed patterns, best practices and threats associated with SOA security models. Also it explored standards, such as WS-Security, SAML, XACML, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy etc.
Another set of sessions held, on the other track. Today Paul Fremantle's session was about "High Volume Web API management with WSO2 ESB". Sanjaya Karunasena who is the CTO of ICTA talked about SOA for citizen centric e-Government service delivery in Sri Lanka.
Then Nelson Raimond, IT manager from Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal (SHF), talked on "Open Source Adoption in a Mexican Bank". Next presentation was from Dmitry Lukyanov, Head of Integration Solutions Dept, Alfa-Bank Ukraine. He talked about how Alfa-Bank has adopted WSO2 products to enable SOA to its banking infrastructure.
Final session in track 01 was about "Building a Mobile POS Solution with WSO2 Carbon and Apple iPod Touch" by Thilanka Kiriporuwa, Head of Human Resources and Operations, Odel.
The day 02 was concluded with a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Srinath Perera and the panelist were Dr. C. Mohan, Sumedha Rubasinghe and Gregor Hohpe from Google.
Finally there was a Jam session from WSO2 folks. It was nice to hear some great music after a series of tech-talks.

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WSO2Con 2011: Introduction to the WSO2 Carbon Platform

Written by Afkham Azeez




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WSO2Con 2011

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

‎~ Last year Sep̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨̨̨̨̨̨̨̨17th, we were at Water's edge, Battaramulla marking the 5th year of WSO2. Now after almost 1 year, we are at the same place for WSO2Con 2011 - Sri Lanka. As an interesting co-incident, today I (along with 20+ of my friends) marked my first year at WSO2 as a Software Engineer. [Observations: I have to go a looong way, and have to learn lotsa lotsa things. More TODOs for 2012.]
WSO2Con 2011 started in style today (Sep 13th), with the flavor and cultural touch of Sri Lanka. [13th, 14th, and 15th of Sep - WSO2Con Plus 12th and 16th Pre- and Post- Conference tutorials.]


The session was also live webcast through OxygenTank. http://wso2.org/events/wso2con-2011-colombo. The event was also actively tweeted by the audience and the event's official twitter page. There are a series of blog posts around the talks by the presenters and the audience. The presentation slides have already been shared by the speakers.


Cultural events and entertainment followed the technical sessions. WSO2Con proves that it is not a tech-only/geeky session. Rather it is a technology and networking event for the architects, intellectuals, technologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and evangelists.



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WSO2Con 2011: Introduction to WSO2 Stratos

Written by Afkham Azeez




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