Posts for the 'ESB' Category
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Bobby Wolf posted a great article about a wide-spread problem plaguing many SOA implementations: over-engineering of SOA infrastructure, meaning that people rollout products that are not particularly required to implement their business services. He specifically talks about ESBs, but I would say that "you ain't gonna need it" principle should be applied to any component [...]
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
Several SOA vendors are trying to put together comprehensive suites of SOA products that in theory should be capable of
addressing
all aspects of SOA, including governance, integration, business process management and others.
Formation of SOA suites is having a tremendous impacts on how SOA products are selected
as many organizations
are being tempted to settle [...]
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
Lori MacVitte from F5 had a few comments about my post on using XML appliances in ESB capacity. While I don't completely agree with some of her specific points about what ESB capabilities are missing from XML appliances (for example, parallel processing is employed by most appliance vendors, transactionality is also supported for relevant protocols [...]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
IBM recently announced that DataPower XI50 appliance now supports transformations developed using WebSphere Transformation Extender design studio. This is the same technology used in the Message Broker product. Additionally, support for WebSphere Registry and Repository has been added. From the announcement:
New offerings being announced today include the WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50, which now supports [...]
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Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Batch processing (a.k.a. "bulk processing") is dull and boring compared to the new world of SOA, Software as a Service and Web 2.0. It’s hardly ever mentioned these days, so one can get an impression that batch processing all but disappeared from an enterprise and got replaced by “enterprise mashups”, or, at the very least, [...]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Yahoo Pipes web site was launched last week and almost immediately drew the attention of a large crowd - I think the site actually went down for a few hours after the launch.
Yahoo Pipes makes it extremely easy to "mash" different Web sources together - without any programming, using drag-and-drop AJAX UI. The UI [...]
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Sunday, July 9th, 2006
This blog entry discusses
Forrester Wave report on ESB market. The report endorses ESB products and suggests that
ESB is “the most straightforward way to get started with service-oriented integration today”.
And I’ve always thought that the most straightforward way is to start
implementing services instead of infrastructure products (however useful these products might be).
As […]
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
ESB and other SOA middleware can provide many important capabilities but at the
end of the day what really counts is whether these products make developers and
other stakeholders more productive.
There is nothing “magic” about ESB products. They are all based on well-known
application servers and/or messaging products and so they really don’t change
the […]
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
Visual tools for designing message or process flows are part of many ESB
products. BPM products supporting BPEL or BPMN also heavily rely on visual tools.
Flowchart-like visual notation used by these tools represents a specialized
language that includes all elements of structural programming ("if-then-else", "while" and
so on).
Unfortunately, these languages have very limited support [...]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
ESB products are touted by vendors as key infrastructure component of an SOA.
ESB product selection is a great challenge because ESB as a product category is
still very new. Unlike in JEE application server space, there are no standards
that define ESB capabilities. So vendors are free to use ESB moniker for,
essentially, any […]
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