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Latest Released Version 5.3.0.

Welcome to the WSO2 Application Server.

The WSO2 Application Server is an enterprise-ready cloud-enabled application server, powered by Apache Tomcat, and Apache TomEE, it integrates Apache CXF framework. It provides first class support for standard Web applications, JAX-WS/JAX-RS applications and Jaggery scripting applications. Coupled with features of WSO2 Carbon, users can now manage their applications including JAX-WS and JAX-RS to web applications in a unified manner within the management console itself.

Application Server also provides a comprehensive Web services server platform using CXF as its Web services runtime, and provides many value additions on top of this runtime. It can expose services using both SOAP and REST models and supports a comprehensive set of WS-* specifications such as WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Addressing, WS-SecurityPolicy, etc. WSO2 Application Server also has inbuilt support for Jaggery. WSO2 Application Server can be installed on on-premise or any public/private cloud infrastructure and provide unified management console and lifecycle management features which are independent from underlying deployment option.

• JavaEE 6 Web Profile support via TomEE 1.7.2 integration
• Websocket 1.1 API Support as defined by the JSR-356 specification
• SAML2 Single-Sign-On support for web applications
• Tomcat Virtual Hosts support
• HTTP Session Persistence support
• WS-Discovery support for CXF JAX-WS and JAX-RS services
• OSGi ServiceLoader Mediator specification support via SPI-Fly
• Support for Servlet 3, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, JSTL 1.2 specifications.
• Full JAX-WS 2.2 and JAX-RS 2.0 Specification support
• Integration of Jaggery - server side scripting framework
• Unified Application listing and management UI for WebApps, JAX-WS/RS, Jaggery
• Multi Tenant support for standalone deployment
• 100% Apache Tomcat compliance runtime
• Lazy loading for web applications and services
• Tooling - Application Server related artifacts can be easily generated using WSO2 Developer Studio
• Clustering support for High Availability and High Scalability
• Full support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Policy and WS-Secure Conversation
• JMX and Web interface based monitoring and management
• WS-* and REST support
• GUI, command line, and IDE based tools for Web service development
• Equinox P2 based provisioning support
• WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL/WSDL 1.1, and UI-based try it (invoke any remote Web service)

1. Download the WSO2 Application Server from http://wso2.com/products/application-server/
2. Extract the downloaded zip file
3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat file in the bin directory
4. Once the server starts, point your Web browser to https://localhost:9443/carbon/

1. Minimum memory - 1 GB
2. Processor - Pentium 800MHz or equivalent at minimum
3. The Management Console requires full Javascript enablement of the Web browser

For more details see the Installation guide or, http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/AS530/Installing+the+Product

For a complete guide on adding external dependencies to WSO2 Application Server & other carbon related products refer to the article: http://wso2.com/library/knowledgebase/add-external-jar-libraries-wso2-carbon-based-products

 CARBON_HOME
    |-- bin <directory>
    |-- dbscripts <directory>
    |-- lib <directory>
         `-- runtimes <directory>
	   |-- cxf <directory>
	   `-- ext <directory>
    |-- repository <directory>
    |   |-- carbonapps <directory>
    |       `-- work <directory>
    |   |-- components <directory>
    |   |-- conf <directory>
    |   |-- data <directory>
    |   |-- database <directory>
    |   |-- deployment <directory>
    |   |-- lib <directory>
    |   |-- logs <directory>
    |   |-- resources <directory>
    |   |   `-- security <directory>
    |   `-- tenants <directory>
    |-- tmp <directory>
    |-- LICENSE.txt <file>
    |-- README.txt <file>
    |-- INSTALL.txt <file>
    `-- release-notes.html <file>

- bin
  Contains various scripts .sh & .bat scripts.

- dbscripts
  Contains the database creation & seed data population SQL scripts for
  various supported databases.

- lib
  Contains the basic set of libraries required to startup Application Server
  in standalone mode

- repository
  The repository where Carbon artifacts & Axis2 services and
  modules deployed in WSO2 Carbon are stored.
  In addition to this other custom deployers such as
  dataservices and axis1services are also stored.

    - carbonapps/work
      Work directory for Carbon Applications. Carbon Application hot deployment directory is repository/deployment/server/carbonapps/

	- components
      Contains all OSGi related libraries and configurations.

    - conf
      Contains server configuration files. Ex: axis2.xml, carbon.xml

    - data
      Contains internal LDAP related data.

    - database
      Contains the WSO2 Registry & User Manager database.

    - deployment
      Contains server side and client side Axis2 repositories.
      All deployment artifacts should go into this directory.

    - logs
      Contains all log files created during execution.

    - resources
      Contains additional resources that may be required.

- tenants
  Directory will contain relevant tenant artifacts
  in the case of a multitenant deployment.

- tmp
  Used for storing temporary files, and is pointed to by the
  java.io.tmpdir System property.

- LICENSE.txt
  Apache License 2.0 under which WSO2 Carbon is distributed.

- README.txt
  This document.

- INSTALL.txt
  This document contains information on installing WSO2 Application Server.

- release-notes.html
  Release information for WSO2 Application Server ${appserver.version}

• Please report issues at [WSO2 Application Server JIRA] (https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSAS).
• Send your bug fixes pull requests to [master branch] (https://github.com/wso2/product-as/tree/master)

WSO2 Application Server developers can be contacted via the mailing lists:

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