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In recent years, there have been several technologies attempting to solve these problems such as Enterprise Applicaton Application Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business (B2B), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web Services. These solutions addressed some of the integration problems, but were proprietary, expensive, and time-consuming to implement. These solutions range from expensive vendor solutions (high cost, vendor lock-in) to home-grown custom solutions (high maintenance, high cost). The overwhelming disadvantages of these solutions are high cost and low flexibility due to non-standard implementations.
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- distributed - to remove geographical constraints
- message-based - to promote loose coupling
- open standards-based - to preserve investment and encourage partipicipationparticipation
- reliable - to meet the requirements of mission-critical business operations
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There are many vendors that provide ESB solutions, but there is not no universal agreement as to the best design or architecture for an ESB. ServiceMix has a design that is based on the JBI (JSR 208) specification in order to create a standards based ESB and the ServiceMix ESB combines the functionality of both a Service Oriented Architecture (S0A) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to achieve an agile, enterprise ESB.
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We rapidly came to the conclusion, that as there was no single product that would adequately meet our needs, we would have to just go
a head ahead and build one!
Features Overview
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Other J2EE application servers ServiceMix has been integrated with include JBoss and JOnAS, JOnAS with more to follow.
Books, Articles and other readings
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