JBossESB - Reliable SOA infrastructure

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An ESB is the next generation of EAI - better and without the vendor-lockin characteristics of old. As such, many of the capabilities of a good ESB mirror those of existing EAI offerings: Business Process Monitoring, Integrated Development Environment, Human Workflow User Interface, Business Process Management, Connectors, Transaction Manager, Security, Application Container, Messaging Service, Metadata Repository, Naming and Directory Service, Distributed Computing Architecture.

An ESB is part of an SOA infrastructure. However, SOA is not simply a technology or a product:

it's a style of design, with many aspects (such as architectural, methodological and organisational) unrelated to the actual technology. But obviously at some point it becomes necessary to map the abstract SOA to a concrete implementation and that's where JBossESB comes in to play!

FAQs

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• Frequently Asked Questions

Features

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• Messaging Service Support: Including JBossMessaging, JBossMQ, MQSeries, OracleAQ, TibcoEMS and ActiveMQ

• Message Routing: Static and Content Based using JBossRules.

• MessageTransformation: Milyn Smooks Fragment based Data Transformation Engine

• XML Registry using the JAXR API

• Persisted Event Repository

• Base Transport Mechanism

• Pluggable Architecture

• Notification Service

• WebservicesSupport

• Business Process Management (BPM) Integeration

• Hot Deployment

• Complex Splitting, Enrichment and Routing of Huge Messages

User Documentation

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• Getting Started

• Project page

• Architecture

• Documentation

• Ask questions on the User Forum

• Downloads

• JBossESB Blog

• Enterprise Integration Patterns

• Quickstart Sample Programs

One of the core features of the ESB is its ability to consume messages generated from a JCA inflow adapter.  The following pages demonstrate how JCA adapters can be configured to generate message traffic into the ESB.

• Integration of a JMS resource adapter

• Integration of an email resource adapter

Developer Documentation

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• JBossESBDevelopment

• Discuss design on the Design Forum

• Do you want to be a JBossESB committer? Take a look at the currently outstanding tasks in JIRA

• JBoss ESB Team

• Release checklist

• Building ESB 4.x Components with Maven2
• Writing Custom Listeners for JBoss ESB 4.x
• JBoss AS5 integration for ESB4.x

Presentations

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• September 2007: JBoss ESB 4.2

• JavaPolis 2006 - Open Source SOA

• "Dive Deep into JBoss ESB 4.2" webinar and the recorded session is available here http://www.redhat.com/promo/webinars/.  Scroll down to the Archived Webinars section and you will need to fill in the registration form then you will be emailed the link to the recorded event.

• JBoss Online Education, check the ESB Roadmap and SOA for Developers part 1 and 2.

• Online demonstration of WS-BPEL support

Sandbox

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• Some code extensions to the ESB that are not quite ready for prime-time

Troubleshooting

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• JBossESB 4.x
  

Related Projects

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• JBoss Messaging is our default messaging provider.

• JBoss jBPM is used to provide Business Process Management.

• Smooks is used to build a message transformation library.

• Scout is a JAXR implementation.

• jUDDI is an UDDI registry.

• SOA Tooling

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