Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps
and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and
software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports,
containers, standards, best practices...you name it.
The bits and bytes that are now available are undeniably sophisticated,
diverse, and capable of almost anything, but many of the packages are built
from the technology up and leave the job of how to use the capabilities
effectively as an exercise for the reader.
Today, many readers have completed many such exercises. There is a wealth of
experience and thousands of successful projects out there that have led to
the definition of many infrastructure design patterns that help developers
cut to ... (more)
Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications
to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service
Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business
resources, that interact by exchanging requests (for data delivery and
integration, as well as for services) and that can handle streams of diverse
business proc... (more)
The latest hype technology has numerous software vendors scrambling to become
buzzword compliant. Analyst groups from Gartner to IDC hail the enterprise
service bus (ESB) as the revolutionary technology that will transform
middleware due to the vast benefits of adopting vendor-independent
standards-based architectures. According to Gartner, ESBs will replace
traditional middleware by 200... (more)
Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps
and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and
software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports,
containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The bits and bytes that
are now available are undeniably sophisticated, diverse, and capable of
almost anyt... (more)
Called to larger tasks, messaging technology is now in a phase of evolution.
A mixed message model is needed to combine the best of Web services and
traditional asynchronous message delivery to provide the flexibility required
for today's real-time enterprise.
Traditional message-queuing middleware will soon be replaced by enterprise
service bus (ESB) technology - taking messaging to the ... (more)
Rob Davies, director of open source development at IONA, has more than 20 years of experience developing high-performance distributed enterprise systems and products for telecom and finance corporations. He is responsible for leading the development of IONA's FUSE family of open source products, which are based on leading projects at the Apache Software Foundation. Rob is a founder of the Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix and Apache Camel projects. Prior to joining IONA, Rob served as the founder and vice president of product development at LogicBlaze, which was acquired by IONA in 2007. Previously, Rob served as founder and CTO of integration software developer SpiritSoft.
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