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What is Java Business Integration (JBI)?

There are many vendors that provide ESB solutions, but there is not universal agreeement as to the best design or architecture for an ESB. LogicBlaze has implemented the ServiceMix ESB based on the JBI (JSR 208) specification in order to create a standard ESB. So what is the JBI specification?JBI is an architecture for integration systems specifying plug-in components that interoperate by exchanging messages, rather than by interacting directly. This decoupling increases flexibility because each component needs to know how to interact with the JBI bus only and not with n number of other components. JBI components provide services, consume services, or sometimes both. There are two types of components: Service Engines (SE) and Binding Components (BC). The SEs provide business logic and transformation services. The BCs provide connectivity for applications that are external to the JBI. The separation of business and processing logic from communication logic makes the implementation of components much easier.

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In summary, the JBI specification creates a standards-based technology for enterprise application integration. For more details on the JBI specification please see: JSR 208.

Why ServiceMix

There are many vendors that provide ESB solutions, but there is not universal agreeement as to the best design or architecture for an ESB. LogicBlaze has implemented the ServiceMix ESB based on the JBI (JSR 208) specification in order to create a standards based ESB. As previously stated earlier, ServiceMix is an open source ESB that is based on the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard. These two factors, open source and open standards-based, allow for low entry cost, maximum flexibility, reuse, and investment protection.

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