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Welcome to the WSO2 Gadget Server 1.0.1

This document provides an introduction to the concepts and use of the Gadget Server, and will help you get started using Web service technology.

Services are the building blocks of SOAs. A complete SOA platform needs to enable the creation of services on a wide variety of platforms, to support today's heterogeneous enterprises. However, end users mostly care about their business needs and they will demand complete access to every application and service required to satisfy these needs. Organisations need to come up with tangible applications that help utilise existing investments made in building their SOAs, irrelevant of the underlying technology (Java, .Net, PHP or any other) while maintaining a people centric approach and delivering maximum value for the business user.



The WSO2 Gadget Server is a light weight portal platform enabling the re-purposing and unification of existing services in an organisation's SOA.



Gadgets deployed in WSO2 Gadget Server are HTML and Javascript wrapped in XML adhering to the Google Gadgets Specification and thus can be hosted anywhere. This increases scalability and allows organisations to leverage existing services and code to satisfy new user requirements. Gadgets are self contained, ready to use applications which are task specific and lightweight. The WSO2 Gadget Server powers the rendering and management of gadgets according to the preference of the business user via a drag and drop layout of gadgets, per gadget settings and different tabs for gadget categorization among others.



The WSO2 Gadget Server also provides an Enterprise Gadget Repository from where business users can pick and choose additional, recommended gadgets to be added to their individual portal pages. This repository helps enterprises govern the gadgets exposed to the end user while the users get to rate and comment on each gadget found in the repository.



The WSO2 Gadget Server is released under the Apache License v2.0

features in the 1.0 release:

  • Enterprise class Portal interface
Users get to organise gadgets in a familiar portal interface. Sets of gadgets can be organised using tabs. Individual gadgets can be moved between tabs as well as cloning an entire tab to be used as the foundation for a new tab.

  • Client Side Gadgets
Any gadget adhering to the Google Gadget Specification can be added to the portal. These gadgets are basically HTML and Javascript embedded in XML. They can be hosted in any publicly accessible Web Server. The URL of the gadget XML is used to add them to the Portal.

  • Enterprise Gadget Repository
Organisations can maintain a central repository of gadgets. Portal users can browse and add gadgets from this repository to their individual portals, while rating and commenting on individual gadgets.

  • Anonymous Mode
Users can experience most of the Portal's functionality 'excluding' the gadget Repository even before registration and sign in. All data in this mode will be stored in the user's browser.

  • Multi option user registration and sign in
User registration and sign in can be done using OpenID or Infocards in addition to the traditional user name and password based scheme.

  • Management Console
Helps configure and manage the server, its users and the Enterprise Gadget Repository via an intuitive browser based administrative interface.


Please refer the Gadget Server v1.0 Release Note for more details.



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