I’ve recently asked one of my developers to research some integration and middleware technologies for a project we’re working on. After spending a couple days on this, he said to me “these things are all part of ESBs now”. I.e. all the integration and middleware vendors have pretty much taken these capabilities and bundled them [...]
Came across a pretty cool open source product several weeks ago. It’s an event stream processing engine called Esper developed by a couple guys who look like they have a lot of experience building systems for the financial sector. Makes sense since I can see a lot applications for EDA’s in the financial domain. Esper [...]
With all the hype around ESBs, a lot of people think that you need an ESB to build an SOA. That isn’t always the case. I’m getting tired of seeing boilerplate SOA architecture diagrams with an ESB in the center. As with any other product, you should only use it if you require the functionality [...]
Saw some talk (from David Linthicum and David Black) recently in the blogosphere on doing business activity monitoring (BAM) and business intelligence (BI) within SOAs. This is an idea I’ve been keen on for a while now. Wrote an article about it for DM Review last August. The opportunity lays in the fact that SOAs [...]
Years ago, I worked for a company that built products for mobile and wireless applications. We had a platform for developing systems that connected the enterprise applications with users in the field through their handhelds, PDA’s, smartphones, etc. I was thinking about it the other day and it struck me how similar that platform was [...]
Organizations are increasingly looking at using an Enterprise Service Bus as the technical foundation for building SOAs these days. With the ESB playing such a critical role in your SOA infrastructure, it is important to understand the characteristics by which to measure the robustness of your ESB. There are various definitions of an ESB out [...]
