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Open Source Integration and Messaging in the Cloud

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:00:00 EDT

The cloud: few topics are as frequently discussed among information technology (IT) professionals. But why? Internet hosted applications and services certainly aren’t a new concept. In fact, application service providers began delivering functionality via the Web more than a decade ago, and even Software-as-a-Service, considered a revolutionary way to deliver software just a few years ago, is now commonplace. Nor is the cloud necessarily a new story or concept. One can argue it is not unlike the mainframe computing environment of years past – one in which resources are provisioned and allocated as needed. Why then is the cloud the focus of so much attention? Why, too is it increasingly synonymous with increased use of open source integration and messaging solutions? First and foremost, we need to disassociate cloud with merely the delivery of applications. Instead cloud computing addresses something far more fundamental – the delivery of computing power and IT infrastructure in the form of a convenient, cost-effective and ubiquitous service. This ultimately is what enterprises gain when they replace their existing infrastructure with a collection of consolidated servers, whether public, private or a combination of both.

SOA Made Easy: Open Source Apache Camel

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:15:00 EDT

Over the last several years, integration technology has been growing by leaps and bounds. The XML/REST/Web Services/SOA revolution has driven engineers and software firms to create an abundance of protocols, adaptors, transports, containers, standards, best practices...you name it. The bits and bytes that are now available are undeniably sophisticated, diverse, and capable of almost anything, but many of the packages are built from the technology up and leave the job of how to use the capabilities effectively as an exercise for the reader.

SOA Made Easy with Open Source Apache Camel

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:30:00 EST

SOA + EDA = Open Source ESB: ServiceMix(*)

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:00:00 EDT

Today's enterprise applications are distributed by design. For applications to interact with one another over networks optimally, they require Service Oriented and Event Driven Architectures made up of loosely federated business resources, that interact by exchanging requests (for data delivery and integration, as well as for services) and that can handle streams of diverse business processes in real-time. To support large-scale, enterprise integration, organizations need to adopt strategies that rationalize the infrastructure for integration based on the requirements of business/IT organization itself.

Pick Your Enterprise Service Bus with Care!

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The latest hype technology has numerous software vendors scrambling to become buzzword compliant. Analyst groups from Gartner to IDC hail the enterprise service bus (ESB) as the revolutionary technology that will transform middleware due to the vast benefits of adopting vendor-independent standards-based architectures. According to Gartner, ESBs will replace traditional middleware by 2007. So far, however, this 'revolution' has seen only a few sparks.

ESB Technology & Innovation

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Called to larger tasks, messaging technology is now in a phase of evolution. A mixed message model is needed to combine the best of Web services and traditional asynchronous message delivery to provide the flexibility required for today's real-time enterprise.