ESB to use with Jboss Portal 2.6.3 ...

[rohit000]

Hi All,

The Portal application we are designing needs to talk to variety of back end systems (supporting different protocols for integration) to get data in asynchronous/synchronous manner.

Wondering what would be the right ESB to use with JBoss Portal Server 2.6.3. I'm considering Servicemix or Mule.

Does anybody has experience in using them with Jboss Portal Server 2.6.3 ? I would like to understand which one fits seamlessly with lesser problems.

Regards,
Rohit

[swisst]

We first evaluated Mule and really liked it...this was on version 2.6.1.

However, management decided they wanted a complete JBoss stack, so we used the JBoss ESB.

After porting everything over that we did on Mule to JBoss ESB (no small task), we had a few observations:

* Mule had more mature API's and much more documentation/examples.
* Mule was less intrusive and easier to use.
* Running the JBoss ESB and Portal server on the same JBoss A/S is possible, but very tricky. For example, we have not been able to update to the latest version of Portal because ESB requires a different version of the A/S

[rohit000]

Thanks a lot Swist for sharing your experience.

Regards,
Sourav