RESOURCE - Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented their combined experience in the integration space and created the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (EIP), which has since been adopted as the standard for describing messaging solutions. Check out this deck of flashcards to find definitions of integration design patterns based on EIP.
Posted: December 8, 2011 | Published: December 8, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | ESB | File Transfer Protocols | Integrated Development Environments | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Protocols | Messaging Software | Open Source | Open Source Software

WHITE PAPER - As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises.
Posted: December 8, 2011 | Published: July 31, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Data Integration | ESB | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Open Source | Open Source Software | Retail Trade Industry | SOA | SOAP

WHITE PAPER - Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software.
Posted: December 7, 2011 | Published: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | ESB | File Transfer Protocols | Open Source

VIDEO - In this video, FuseSource engineer Claus Ibsen introduces Apache Camel, a lightweight integration framework that can help you go from enterprise integration patterns (EIPs) to production. Hear why popular open source projects and multple enterprise service bus (ESB) servers include Apache Camel in their distributions.
Posted: December 5, 2011 | Premiered: December 2, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | ESB | Open Source | Web Applications Architectures | Web Services | Web Services Architecture

VIDEO - In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented.
Posted: December 5, 2011 | Premiered: December 5, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | Enterprise Services Architecture | ESB | Integrated Development Environments | Middleware | Open Source | SOA

WEBCAST - Forrester Research's 2011 Q2 Wave Report named FuseSource's enterprise service bus (ESB) offering Active MQ as its highest ranked open source ESB solution and placed it in the "Leader" category along with large, established vendors. View this webcast to get an overview and product demo of Active MQ.
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Premiered: November 30, 2011


Topics:  Apache | Application Integration | Data Integration | ESB | High Availability | Messaging Middleware | Messaging Software | Open Source Software | Routing | SOA

ANALYST REPORT - Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings.
Posted: December 1, 2011 | Published: April 25, 2011


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Data Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | Enterprise Services Architecture | ESB | Open Source Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.
Posted: November 28, 2011 | Published: December 31, 2010


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Enterprise Services Architecture | ESB | Integration Testing | Interoperability | SOA | SOA Governance

WEBCAST - This webcast covers how an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture enables interoperability at the seven points of mediation that represent a set of principles that, if adhered to, can provide the agility and reuse that service oriented architecture (SOA) promises.
Posted: November 23, 2011 | Premiered: November 11, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Data Integration | Enterprise Services Architecture | ESB | Interoperability | SOA | SOA Governance

ANALYST REPORT - Forrester Research conducted briefings and demonstration reviews with five commercial and four open source enterprise service bus (ESB) product vendors and evaluated their capabilities in each of the five following functional categories: architecture, connection, mediation, orchestration, and change and control.
Posted: November 22, 2011 | Published: April 25, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | BPEL | Enterprise Services Architecture | ESB | Fault Tolerance | SOA | SOA Governance

ANALYST REPORT - This Forrester’s Wave report provides an unbiased evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of top ESB vendors across a range of criteria. This in-depth guide not only contains coverage of features, vendors and products, but also features real-world input from over 20 customers currently using the evaluated products.
Posted: June 21, 2011 | Published: June 21, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Enterprise Services Architecture | Enterprise Systems | ESB | Service Level Management | SOA | Software Selection

WEBCAST - Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p>
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Premiered: April 15, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Integration | Application Server Software | Enterprise Computing | Enterprise Systems | ESB | Java | Open Source | Open Source Software | SOA