Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software
27 August 2006Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software tools are one of the cutting-edge products just emerging onto the technology scene in recent years. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing to reliably connect and coordinate the interaction of significant numbers of diverse applications across extended enterprises with transactional integrity.
ESB software tools are extremely complex, striving to openly connect a wide diversity of Web services, back-end corporate processes and data-driven applications. All ESBs are heavily based on open Web and XML standards, and they use open methodologies to provide a connective layer to multiple endpoints. All ESB software tools support for core SOA (service-oriented architecture) standards.
Among ESBs on the market, there is no fundamental difference. Everything an ESB does functionality-wise is similar because it is created based on open standards. However, ESB vendors are trying to differentiate themselves on the margins through better developer-oriented tools or easier integration with common back-end enterprise systems, or aggressive support of early drafts of proposed Web service and integration standards. The following ESBs are power players:
Sonic ESB (Sonic Software)
www.sonicsoftware.com
Pioneered the ESB space, Sonic ESB is the most capable and mature product, It offers powerful tools for integrating diverse business processes and systems.
BEA Software AquaLogic
www.bea.com
Like other BEA’s solid products, AquaLogic provides outstanding ESB platform as well as SOA and web services management functions.
Cape Clear ESB (Cape Clear Software)
www.capeclear.com
Provides an intuitive and capable platform for creating, managing and deploying services, processes and data for an SOA infrastructure.
Artix (Iona Technologies)
www.iona.com
Artix is an ESB platform that provides simple-to-use tool set with powerful integration capabilities.
Sun Java ESB Suite
www.sun.com
This is an ESB platform designed to work well in Sun’s Java Enterprise System.
Open Source ESBs
Celtix (http://celtix.objectweb.org)
Mule (http://mule.codehaus.org)
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