Archives for Enterprise Service Bus category
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Oct
Posted in Enterprise Service Bus, Quick Links by Mike Ponta on Oct 23 2011
JBoss, the open source division of Red Hat, updated its ESB, BSRM, and SOA platforms. The updates include significant changes to the Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine, which JBoss says will improve the way connected technologies interpret and respond to events in real time. A blog post from the JBoss team explains how the technologies may have a specific impact in the mortgages industry.
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Jul
Posted in Announcements, Enterprise Service Bus by Mike Ponta on Jul 19 2011
We’ve begun compiling resources and information about the enterprise service bus (ESB) and the role it plays in cloud application integration. Find definitions, advice, trends, and the best content from our site and from around the web. This page will be updated regularly and, as always, we accept contributions from our readers.
Organizations of all size recognize the need for application integration governance
When it comes to application integration, governance may not be the first technology that comes to mind. Still, it’s an important part of the integration process, and governance technologies are seeing wider user as service-oriented architecture and cloud computing adoption grows.
“A couple of years ago only very large organizations were pushing governance, and it was very much from a top down approach,” said Paul Fremantle, CTO of enterprise service bus and middleware provider WSO2. “We’re beginning to now see everybody wanting an answer.”
WSO2 released a new version of its governance registry last week. Fremantle said that over 90% of users of the WSO2 ESB use a governance registry alongside it.
“What you want to do well with governance is make sure people go through the right review process before they publish a service to the ESB,” said Fremantle. “Typically you want to have a flow from design to development to unit test and system test then onto production.
“To move it from one thing to another you want to have a checklist,” said Fremantle. “Are [developers] reusing schema, or using new schema that has the same data but a different format? Did they go through the review process? Have they got the right security policy on this service?”
Rise of public APIs driving governance and ESB adoption
Fremantle said the recent push towards using public application programming interfaces [APIs] for integration is not much different from the rise of SOA and ESBs. “An API is just a service,” said Fremantle. “The whole drive to APIs is having a big impact on this space.”
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Jun
Posted in Enterprise Service Bus, Quick Links by Mike Ponta on Jun 22 2011
WSO2 today announced the release of WSO2 Carbon 3.2, an upgrade to its SOA middleware system. The release includes WSO2 ESB 4.0, an enterprise service bus built on Apache Synapse and featuring a new routing system designed to improve processing speed. The release also includes an updated governance registry that adds a new API and support for UDDI.
With the release WSO2 adds to the platform a Complex Event Processing (CEP) engine and a new message broker. WSO2 Carbon 3.2 is available for free download or as cloud virtual machines.
10
May
Posted in Enterprise Service Bus, Quick Links by Mike Ponta on May 10 2011
Talend today announced the release of an enterprise service bus as part of its data management platform. The release includes a service locator, service activity monitoring tools, and security features. Talend ESB Standard Edition is available as an open source tool through the Apache license and is built upon Apache CFX, Apache Active MQ and Apache Camel technologies.
Talend views the release allows them to now offer a unified platform for data integration, in conjunction with data monitoring and master data management (MDM) tools. In an Information Week article, reporter Justin Kern notes that while some analysts view Talend’s approach to a unified data integration platform as a way to reduce integration complexity, others believe it may be too broad in scope.
ALM and the ESB can add functionality to cloud integration scenarios
Application lifecycle management (ALM) and enterprise service buses (ESBs) have long had a part in helping to meet on-premise application integration challenges. But these technologies have a place in cloud-based application integration as well.
We recently spoke with Geoji George, Director of Product Management, Integration Division at Pervasive, about the inclusion of these technologies in a cloud integration tool. Pervasive released a cloud-based version of its Data Integrator v10 this past November that includes an ALM tool and an ESB. Read more… »
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Jan
Posted in Cloud app integration news, Enterprise Service Bus by Mike Ponta on Jan 19 2011
MuleSoft this week announced Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 3.1. Mule ESB 3.0 was released in September, and introduced many new capabilities for cloud integration. According to Mule’s initial press release, the upgrade includes a service orchestration capability called Flow which enables cloud-based services orchestration. We recently spoke with MuleSoft CTO Ross Mason about developments in SaaS ESB integration.
In this article, CIO‘s David Taber takes a look at SaaS integration in different application layers. He begins by looking at on-screen integration, also known as mashups,and moves through presentation layer integration, business logic intergration, and finally data integration. Each type of integration requires a different degree of complexity and security, but the deeper one goes the more comprehensive an can become. Read more for details.
In this interview, Juan Carlos Soto, Senior VP and General Manager at Informatica, describes why business-to-business data integration is an important part of the broader integration problem.
ESB as a Service will emerge as integration option over coming years
The ESB as a Service is not in wide use, but industry leaders believe that the demand for the ESB as a Service will grow rapidly in the next few years.
An ESB, or enterprise service bus, is an integration middleware layer that helps integrate applications written in different languages or frameworks. An ESB as a Service would make the functionality of the ESB available over a public or private network.
We recently talked with CTOs at open source ESB providers WSO2 and MuleSoft about the future of the ESB as a Service. For now, the adoption of the ESB as a Service parallels broader cloud adoption trends.
“Large enterprises are pretty conservative,” said Paul Fremantle, CTO of WSO2. “But we see that attitude, that people are not willing to do things in the public cloud, is changing.”
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Cloud computing still “the wild west” when it comes to standardization
We spoke recently with Ross Mason, CTO of open source enterprise service bus (ESB) provider MuleSoft. As an open source integration tool, the Mule ESB makes use of standards whenever possible. But Mason believes that standards for cloud integration will need a few years to mature.
“There’s a lot of discussions on many of the architecture boards around defining different standards for the cloud,” said Mason. “Unfortunately, I don’t think any of that is really going to take hold until we start seeing more widespread usage, and then we’ll see second generation where we might get more standardized.”
“It’s still the wild west,” added Mason.
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12
Nov
Posted in Cloud app integration news, Enterprise Service Bus by Mike Ponta on Nov 12 2010
Workday CTO Stan Swete believes that cloud integration is a major hurdle for those CTOs wary of cloud, on par with security and autonomy. According to this ZDNet article, integration comes up in every conversation.
According to this article from ITBusinessEdge, many companies adopting cloud computing have become disillusioned with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Many companies with growing B2B integration initiatives are finding that the EAI and ESB systems within their stacks are redundant, because the intrasystem integration is no longer as important as the B2B integration.
Cloud-based document management provider KnowledgeTree today announced offline backup functionality for its customers. KnowledgeTree acknowledges that it gives their customers “piece of mind.” The move underscores how customer confidence in cloud security and reliability is not absolute, nor should vendors assume it is.
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