Developing Integration Projects with WSO2EI Tooling

In the last chapter, we kept up-to-date with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the original problem that gave birth to SOA, and the benefits of SOA. Additionally, we learned how to build our SOA infrastructure using WSO2 products, and, more concretely, using WSO2 EI 6.0.0.

In this chapter, we will introduce WSO2 Enterprise Integrator Tooling. This is an Eclipse-based IDE and we will use it to develop our services, as well as to build the deployable artifacts. The topics we will cover are as follows:

• Installing and running WSO2EI Tooling
• Creating carbon projects
• Debugging applications
• Data mappings

WSO2EI Tooling is a single tool used to develop our entire application, including artifacts from any of the components that comprise WSO2EI.

WSO2EI Tooling is based on Eclipse IDE for Java developers, also called Mars 2.

We can do either of the following:

• Download the Eclipse plugin and install it to our Eclipse, where the Eclipse version must be Mars 2 compatible
• Download the full distribution

We will choose the second option, since it is suitable for most cases, is the simplest one, and avoids any configuration issues.