Implementing an ESB

Develop – Educate – Blueprint – Prepare Enterprise service bus (ESB) represents the latest generation of the enterprise application integration (EAI) software market. ESB products provide a simpler, more intuitive, and more open integration solution than earlier generations of EAI products. An ESB strategy is a key component of multiple enterprise initiatives, including EAI, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA.

ESB addresses the intersection of message-oriented middleware (MOM) and web services. ESB products provide seamless interoperability with established reliable-messaging MOM protocols. Meanwhile, the superplatform vendors and other web services platform (WSP) vendors are adding ESB functionality to their systems based on web services framework (WSF) standards.

The documents included in Stage 1 provide a foundation for initial assessment of ESB. These documents provide a gateway to understanding how ESB fits into an overall enterprise architecture strategy.

Documents

• VantagePoint 2006-2007: Back to Basics
• Enterprise Service Bus: EAI in Transition
• Turning the Network Into the Computer: The Emerging Network Application Platform
• The Advent of the Network Platform: Web Services Move into the IT Fabric
• Telebriefings
  • Application Platforms Strategies Vantage Point 2005-2006: Application Architecture in Transition
  • Presenting the Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture
  • VantagePoint 2006-2007: Back to Basics
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• Take 5
  • Debunking ESBs

Design – Construct – Diagram Enterprise service bus (ESB) represents the latest generation of the enterprise application integration (EAI) software market. ESB products provide a simpler, more intuitive, and more open integration solution than earlier generations of EAI products. An ESB strategy is a key component of multiple enterprise initiatives, including EAI, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA.

ESB addresses the intersection of message-oriented middleware (MOM) and web services. ESB products provide seamless interoperability with established reliable-messaging MOM protocols. Meanwhile, the superplatform vendors and other web services platform (WSP) vendors are adding ESB functionality to their systems based on web services framework (WSF) standards.

The documents included in Stage 2 provide design advice and information relevant for the implementation of an ESB.

Documents

• Reference Architecture Technical Positions
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure
  • Web Services Integration
  • Application Factoring
• Reference Architecture Templates
  • Managed Communications Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Services Model
  • Web Services Infrastructure
  • Web Services Framework Standards
• Orchestrating Web Services: Driving Distributed Process Execution Through Workflow Technology
• Business Rules: Jewels, Tools, or the Stuff of Fools?

Assess – Evaluate – Compare Enterprise service bus (ESB) represents the latest generation of the enterprise application integration (EAI) software market. ESB products provide a simpler, more intuitive, and more open integration solution than earlier generations of EAI products. An ESB strategy is a key component of multiple enterprise initiatives, including EAI, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA.

ESB addresses the intersection of message-oriented middleware (MOM) and web services. ESB products provide seamless interoperability with established reliable-messaging MOM protocols. Meanwhile, the superplatform vendors and other web services platform (WSP) vendors are adding ESB functionality to their systems based on web services framework (WSF) standards.

The documents included in Stage 3 provide product reports that detail specific technologies related to the implementation of an ESB strategy.

Documents

• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 2005: Core XML Standards and Their Impact on Business Development
• Standardizing EAI with Web Services: An Inevitable but Prolonged Transition
• Integration Brokers: Providing the Middleware Fabric for Complex Integration
• Data Management
  • Data Modeling: Not Just for Databases Anymore
  • XML Modeling and Mapping: Tumultuous Transformation in the Grand Schema Things
  • Near-Real-Time Data Integration Pure Plays
• Web Services Platforms
  • XAML: Declarative Programming Advances in .NET 3.0
  • The Microsoft Superplatform: Setting the Bar in the Superplatform Arms Race
  • SAP NetWeaver: Potential Wildcard in the Superplatforms Arms Race
  • The Java Superplatforms: Comparing IBM, Oracle, and BEA
  • Selecting a Java Web Services Platform: An Evaluation Framework
  • The JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite
• Telebriefings
  • The Advent of the Superplatforms
  • ESBs, WSMs, and XMLGs, Oh My!: Making Sense of SOA Mediation Systems
  • XML Standards 2005: Representing and Manipulating Data in XML
  • Near Real-Time Data Integration
  • XAML: Declarative Programming in .NET 3.0
• Inflection Points
  • Web Services Management
  • WS-Convergence
  • JEE5: The Beginning of the End of Java EE