Apache ServiceMix

Published August 25th, 2009 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, Services | Leave a Comment

SOA is simply a way to think when designing systems. Service oriented integration is a way to leverage investments in existing IT systems using the principles of SOA. Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides a platform for system integration utilizing reusable components in a service oriented manner. This session will discuss some definitions of an ESB and how to evaluate them, the Java Business Integration (JBI) spec and will perform live software development using Apache ServiceMix.

RESTful Enterprise Development

Published May 7th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Services | Leave a Comment

In this presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco, ThoughtWorks’ Ian Robinson explains how a RESTful HTTP approach can be applied in an Enterprise project. He makes use of many of the techniques that make HTTP a powerful protocol, including caching, hypermedia, and the use of standard formats such as Atom Syndication for event notification.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/robinson-restful-enterprise

Fuji – The Next Generation of OpenESB

Published May 7th, 2009 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, Services | Leave a Comment

Project Fuji forms the core component of Open ESB v3 effort and represents Sun’s next generation open source integration runtime, focused on providing a lightweight, developer-friendly, and extensible platform for composite application development.

Fuji project home page

Ross Mason Discusses MuleSource, Mule ESB and Galaxy

Published April 27th, 2009 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, Services | Leave a Comment

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Ross Mason discusses Mule, the role of an ESB, Enterprise Edition versus Community Edition, monitoring and MuleHQ, REST support, cloud-based deployments, Galaxy, governance, Mule integrations, community interaction via MuleForge, and the impact of the current recession upon open source software.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mason-mulesource

GlassfishESB & OpenESB with Kevin Schmidt & Suresh Potiny

Published April 14th, 2009 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, Services | Leave a Comment

In this interview, RedMonk talks with Sun’s Kevin Schmidt and Suresh Potiny about Sun’s Enterprise Service Bus product lines, GlassFish ESB and OpenESB. We start talking about the ESB stack that Sun has built up a provides, including more than just the ESB itself, but the NetBeans based tooling as well. Next, we get into the road-map and plans that Sun has for its ESB stack. Then, we end up discussing the broad market and current context for ESBs, be that fitting into SOA environments, both in the “traditional” sense and then also in the emerging types of SOA architectures Kevin and Suresh are seeing. Finally, we up by discussing some of the additional projects around the ESB like Project Fuji.

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