FAQ

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What is Warewolf Easy Service Bus (ESB)?

Warewolf ESB turns complex integration into a simple, seamless process that is deployable across multiple systems. The easiest service bus available, Warewolf is 100% open source and fast-becoming the developers choice. With over 40 tool connectors, including drag-and-drop tooling, a rapid prototyping platform, visual IDE and secure messaging, Warewolf is purposefully easy to learn and simple to use so that it can be deployed by anyone, into any system, anywhere, anytime… and it’s free.

What is a Service Bus?

A Service Bus is a software architecture model used for designing, orchestrating and implementing communication between software applications in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). A Service Bus acts as another layer of abstraction to implement a good Service Oriented Architecture. A Service Bus can handle some of the heavy lifting like messaging, routing, and service co-ordination.

What can Warewolf ESB integrate with?

Warewolf is an integration tool, so the simple answer is: Anything
As cool as that sounds integration with Warewolf is limited at present to the following Databases, DLL’s, Webservices and other Warewolf services either on the same server or another server.

Who is Warewolf ESB built for?

Warewolf is built for software developers and IT professionals. The application itself is code language agnostic making it available to both C#, Java and other developers. It is a tool that is used to help bring IT and business closer together to collaborate on software solutions. Because of its visual IDE, Business Analysts could easily see and modify existing applications built using Warewolf, and potentially learn how to build simple processes.

Why should I use Warewolf ESB?

The world of Service Buses has become increasingly complex and intricate. Most service buses are not easy to learn and they are complicated to use. We have focused on making Warewolf easy to learn and simple to use. API management, integrations and maintenance have been made painless and simple.

Why is Warewolf ESB easier than other Service Buses?

Warewolf has been built for simplicity and ease of use. It utilizes flow-based programming concepts in a visual platform. Warewolf was designed to encourage reuse and composition. Warewolf services can be composed and distributed with only a few clicks. Developers can easily visualise a business process without having to deeply understand someone else’s code. Business can quickly and easily get to grips with how their systems work in a visual IDE.

How do I download Warewolf ESB?

You can download Warewolf for free at http://warewolf.io

How do I get the source code?

How do I contribute to Warewolf ESB?

How do I get support?

How do I get a Warewolf t-shirt?

Warewolf t-shirts are not only awesome, but they cannot be bought. Warewolf t-shirts are earned by doing something that adds value to the application and the community. We have sent t-shirts to people who have helped us by answering surveys, submitting successful Pull Requests in Github and who have generally contributed to improving Warewolf.

Where do I find licencing information?

You can get this information on our website at http://warewolf.io/eula.php