Greg Flurry and Rachel Reinitz posted a nice article on developerWorks (IBM) about their vision of the part ESB plays in a SOA. It’s a multi-part article (part 1, part 2), with some nice info about the Enterprise Service Bus.
Always usefull to see what other big vendors have as their implementation of products which Oracle delivers in their Oracle SOA Suite.
Overhere at IT-eye we also have/had some discussions about when and how we should implement the ESB in a SOA solution. What would be the strenghts of it, what’s the best way to model the whole process, and which components to use for which parts of the process.
September 30th, 2007 at 23:04:22
And, any interesting info? How does their vision compare to what we currently do?
October 1st, 2007 at 22:52:24
The Enterprise Service Bus is only part of the Oracle SOA Suite since the release of 10.1.3.
Where as other big vendors already had some mature ESB, we had to use for example Oracle BPEL for most of the integration.
In the projects where we use the 10.1.3 release, and are able to implement the ESB, it is the fundament of the soa infrastructure.
It’s the entry point for gui/bpel and other applications which are part of some integration, so the esb supplies us the loosely coupled connectivity.
Connecting other legacy applications can be done more easier by putting the esb in between and let it do the transformations/routing between.
I won’t discuss all the capabilities of the esb, but a lot we use for implementing a better soa solution. And by time we learn more and more to be able to design and implement better soa solutions.
If i look at the upcoming 11g release of the SOA Suite, Oracle is putting more functionality in the ESB.
The specs for this release aren’t public yet, so guess i can’t give too much details, but Oracle is making the ESB more and more some central point in his own vison on a soa infrastructure.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:29:38
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