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Extending WSO2 ESB with a Custom Transport Implementation - Part I

WSO2 ESB is considered as one of the best and highest performing open source integration solutions available in the market. One of the astonishing features of the WSO2 ESB is the extensibility of the solution to meet your custom requirements. This means a LOT, if you have dealt with proprietary solutions provided big players (you name it). With this blog post, I will be discussing about one of the not so frequently used but THE BEST extension point in WSO2 ESB which is implementing a custom transport. Given that WSO2 ESB is an extensible solution, that does not mean that it is lacking OOTB features. In fact it provides the most complete feature set provided by any open source integration solution in the market. But as you know, it is not a silver bullet (In fact we can't make silver bullets). Therefore, you may encounter some scenarios where you need to write a custom transport implementation to connect with one of your systems. I will be taking ISO8583 messaging standard to...