Teaser for an interesting book...
EAI - The Broader Perspective
No one should have (or will) ever dared to build a 'Single System' which will take care of the entire business requirements of an enterprise. Instead, we build few (or many) systems,and each of them takes care of a set of functionalities in a single Line of Business (LOB). There is absolutely nothing wrong here, but the need of the hour is that these systems have to exchange information and interoperate in many new ways which have not been foreseen earlier. Business grows, enterprise boundaries expands and mergers and acquisition are all norms of the day. If IT cannot scale up with these volatile environments, the failure is not far.
ChainBuilder ESB is Java Business Integration (JBI) compliant open source solution for use in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments. ChainBuilder ESB's graphical integration enables new and older applications to easily enter into SOA.
The Synapse project is a robust, lightweight implementation of a highly scalable and distributed service mediation framework based on Web services and XML specifications.
PEtALS is the highly distributed Open Source ESB hosted by OW2. PEtALS delivers OW2 JavaTM Business Integration (JBI) platform.
PEtALS provides lightweight and packaged integration solutions, based on JSR-208 specifications, with a strong focus on distribution and clustering.
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Apache ServiceMix is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that combines the functionality of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Event Driven Arthitecture (EDA) to create an agile, enterprise ESB.