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.Net ESB's out there

Does anyone know about .Net ESB's out there, I would prefer Open Source. Personally I know about - NServiceBus http://www.nservicebus.com/ - ESB.Net http://www.codeplex.com/KeystrokeEsbNet - Microsofts guidance on ESB using BizTalk ...

Identifying ASP.NET web service references

At my day job we have load balanced web servers which talk to load balanced app servers via web services (and lately WCF). At any given time, we have 4-6 different teams that have the ability to add new web sites or services or consume existing services. We probably have about 20-30 different web applications and corresponding services. ...

Best ESB and SOA registry out there

Our company is looking to implement an ESB into our SOA. Our SOA is in initial development stages. We currently have F5/BigIP in place with sufficient health checking, load balancing, redundancy, etc. and use WCF as our service technology with occasional Java clients, but majority .NET WCF clients. From a financial and beginning imple...

Any issues using an IBM DataPower ESB w/ WCF development?

I'm looking to implement an ESB and wanted to get thoughts related to "how" my web services might change (WCF) or -- how my client apps that consume these services might "need to be revised" (-- other than a new service ref to the ESB path --) The device I'm working with specifically is the "WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40...

Does WebMethods ESB scale?

I'm looking for people who have had experiences scaling WebMethods ESB to large traffic volumes (both size and number of messages). How has that gone? Were there any issues and how did you solve them? ...

Does WebSphere ESB scale?

I'm looking for people who have had experience scaling IBM's WebSphere to high traffic volumes. This is in terms of both the number of messages and the size of the data. Have there been any issues and are there any gotchas to be looking out for? ...

The ways of Database Integration in SOA/ESB?

Situation: Some Bank has an old legacy ABS (Automatic bank system). Bank wants to: notify old legacy CRM system about client's account changes (Publish operation). check PIN codes of client cards (Request/Response operation) - in synchronious mode. ABS is implemented in very old private technologies with StoredProcedures calls. So,...

What repository products are available for keeping track of web services?

My organization is starting to take SOA seriously but before we jump in one of the components we seem to be missing is a rock solid repository for tracking these services across the enterprise. Can anyone suggest a product that they have worked with? If the product is also an ESB please mention that in your answer. ...

Spring Integration as embedded alternative to standalone ESB

Hi All. Does anybody has an experience with Spring Integration project as embedded ESB? I'm highly interesting in such use cases as: Reading files from directory on schedule basis Getting data from JDBC data source Modularity and possibility to start/stop/redeploy module on the fly (e.g. one module can scan directory on schedule basi...

Message Oriented Middleware (MoM) Vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

I come from a background of MoM. I think I understand ESB conceptually. However, I'm not too sure about the practical differences between the two when it comes to making a choice architecturally. Here is what I want to know 1) Any good links online which can help me in this regard. 2) Can someone tell me where it makes sense to use on...

Making a Service Layer call from Presentation layer

I have to choose a technology to connect my Application/Presentation Layer (Java Based) with the Service Layer (Java Based). Basically looking up appropriate Spring Service from the Business Delegate Object. There are so many options out there that it is confusing me. Here are the options I've narrowed down to but not sure.. Spring RM...

Should we introduce BizTalk/ESB?

My company are about to implement a new architecture in which we have proposed BizTalk (we are a Microsoft shop) as the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in a SOA (please don't quote Service Oriented Ambiguity) environment. Our business is to take Orders through our new Order Capture GUI which must connect to our Customers Database, Product ...

Is orchestration an ESB responsability?

Hi there! Is an Enterprise Service Bus (a tool that acts as a mediator, a message broker, a service enabler, schema transformation enhancer, transparent location provider, service aggregator, load balancer, monitor, and all that stuff) responsible to orchestrate services? What about putting an automated business business process with m...

Agile Development and ESBs

I'm working on shifting our corporate technological paradigm to Agile Development. It's been a hard process but we're almost there! :) We have legacy systems for our database management (used to be Access, now ported to .NET and MS SQL) and we're developing a framework for our future vision. We want to migrate as much as possible to the...

Difference between WebLogic Integration and Oracle Service Bus?

I have limited knowledge of Java-based technologies, and for business enforced reasons, I may need to decide whether WebLogic Integration (WLI) or Oracle Service Bus (OSB) is the better choice for integrating a small number of standalone systems together. Both products seem capable of similar tasks, though in one case (WLI) the integrat...

SOA Governance Explained

Does anybody have an idea what SOA Governance is all about? What is the difference (or correlation) between SOA Governance and IT Governance? and How can it be applied using SOA platforms available in the market? Can a project built on SOA platform be successful without applying SOA Governance? How? I am talking here from a practical po...

Messaging, Queues and ESB's - I know where I want to be but not how to get there!

Hi, To cut a long story short, I am working on a project where we are rewriting a large web application for all the usual reasons. The main aim of the rewrite is to separate this large single application running on single server into many smaller decoupled applications, which can be run on many servers. Ok here's what I would like: I ...

Does everything go through the bus?

We have introduced BizTalk into our organization as a Service Bus, it is linking a new Web GUI to numerous existing back end systems. We have wrapped our existing systems as Services (WCF) and connected them to the BUS. We are also replacing some of the legacy system GUI's with our new web GUI (ensuring we replicate existing functionali...

What is an ESB and what is it good for?

At a previous job, there was lots of talk about "Enterprise Service Bus" (ESB). I read parts of a conceptual book about it, but never really understood how you would implement/integrate it in concrete terms. I'm familiar with SOA/queueing/directory services/etc. but I don't understand what exactly an ESB is. Is it a concrete thing (se...

Is this thinking accurate on ESB vs. REST-styled interfaces?

To tie together various legacy applications, some mainframe-based, I'm trying to compare using an ESB like MQSeries, a WS-* approach, or something more RESTful. Is there much substance to the idea that writing the interface to REST, instead of MQ or even WS-*, may have a secondary benefit of also taking us closer to web-enabling portion...