Open Source SOA Stack

Question

I'd be evaluating Open Source SOA solutions. What are the options?
I'm looking for something that provides (possibly) complete SOA stack.

I'd like below features -

1. BPEL
2. BPM
3. ESB
4. SOA Governance
5. Good tooling

Right now Glassfish ESB looks like a good option. Are there other good Stacks?

Answer 1

Mule is a very popular open source ESB tool. If Mule/Glassfish provide a lot of functionality you don't really need, maybe a combination of ActiveMQ and Spring Integration is the sweet spot for you.

Answer 2

I got done reading "Open Source SOA" a few months back. It goes over alot of the open source stuff related to SOA and does a good compare/contrast between the various options. I'd highly recommend looking at this.

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Soa-Jeff-Davis/dp/1933988541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267534865&sr=8-1

Answer 3

Apache ServiceMix provides an ESB infrastructure that will do SOA in an extremely full featured way. Apache Camel can also be plugged into ServiceMix for enhanced routing and messaging rules.

Answer 4

I'm seriously looking at Sun GlassFish ESB. Although I'm a .net developer the tooling and examples (and book on amazon) are very good and easy to use. It does not cover the governance but very strong BPEL - For what I want I do not even have to know Java - bonus.

Answer 5

I've mentioned several open source ESB in this previous answer but, given your requirements, I'd short list ServiceMix, JBossESB and OpenESB.

I don't have much experience with JBossESB but I received good feedback from trustable sources and I know it has good tooling. OpenESB is definitely a serious candidate (although there is a little incertitude about its future). I don't find the documentation of Service Mix perfect (hard to find things).

So my choice would be between OpenESB and JBossESB (note that they don't cover governance which is actually more a human than a technical issue in my opinion).

Answer 6

Something I have been working for scientific workflows using service-oriented technologies might be useful to you. It's called OMII-UK and the distribution by now contains quite a stack of features. All based on opensource techs (e.g., Tomat, Axis, ActiveBPEL, Eclipse BPEL...). Might be worth a look.

Answer 7

Progress FUSE (Apache ServiceMix) is an answer to the lack of documentation with pure ServiceMix.

You can use Apache ODE to integrate BPEL.

Good set of tutorials found here:

http://jee-bpel-soa.blogspot.com/