How does the WSO2 App Factory Contribute to the Fast and

Complete delivery of a Solution?

Manjula Rathnayaka - Software EngineerManisha Eleperuma - Software Engineer

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WSO2 App Factory is the ideal solution for enterprises that need to create and manage applications while empowering Business as a Service....

User Story - App Factory for Travel

The Leisure Line Holidays (LLH) is a travel planner. This has several systems.

LLH develops its own applications, while other system are developed by the partner organizations and expose it to outside.

System Partner / Owner

Airline reservation systems Airlines

Hotel Reservation systems Hotels

Ground transportation booking systems

Vehicle renters

Tour planning systems LLH itself

User Story - App Factory for Travel

● A person comes to LLH online portal and starts planning a trip abroad. He

○ checks on available and affordable flights.○ book a hotel for the accommodation○ pick the places to travel via the travel plan

● So the LLH portal should have○ A flight scheduling app○ Hotel reservation app○ Travel planning app

User Story - App Factory for Travel

● For the flight schedule app, the Airlines should expose their flight data via an API.

● For the Hotel reservation app, Hotels should expose their hotel booking data via APIs.

User Story - App Factory for Travel

● A travel agency can create a flight schedule app on their own. For that, it needs,

○ 4 stratos environments - Dev, Test, Staging, Prod○ API store to discover flight schedule APIs created by airlines○ Sandbox & Prod keys of the above APIs (that are exposed via

API-M)○ AS instance to host the webapp○ Developers to develop the app and promote to Test○ Testers to test and promote to Staging○ DevOps to promote from Staging to Prod

NOW WE HAVE A PRODUCTION APP

User Story - App Factory for Travel

● An airline who creates an API needs the following○ A database that holds flight data○ 4 stratos environments - Dev, Test, Staging, Prod○ DS instance to expose data as a service○ API-M instance to expose the DS as an API○ Developers to develop the API and promote to Test○ Testers to test and promote to Staging○ DevOps to promote from Staging to Prod

NOW WE HAVE A PRODUCTION API

An Airline Partner...

● Create a database for flight schedules and ticket fares

● Create the data service Flight Timetable using Dev Studio

● Create Flight Schedule API out of the data service● Goes through the SDLC● Obtain sandbox URL for Dev/Testing/Staging● Update with the Production url and Expose as API

App Developer from Travel Agency ...

● Discover Flight schedule API using the App Store● Subscribe to Flight schedule API● Create a new Web App in App Factory● Check out the project repository ● Build the Web App Pick Flight App to select a flight,

in the svn repo using Dev Studio● Sets the SDLC● QA test the Web App in Testing env● Dev-Ops deploy Pick Flight App into Production● App Dashboard to keep track of Bug counts, LoC

etc

Leisure Line Travel Agency Owners ....

● CXO Dashboards○ Issues with the priorities○ Issues by Stage○ Bug Assigners○ Bug Reporters○ Application Creators○ Build Status○ Resource Usage

Q & A

Engage with WSO2

● Helping you get the most out of your deployments● From project evaluation and inception to development

and going into production, WSO2 is your partner in ensuring 100% project success

Thank You