[hemmerling] Enterprise Service Bus ( ESB ) / Enterprise Service Architecture ( ESA )

Related pages:

• Fieldbuses and Automation Networks.
• Enterprise Mashups & Web 2.0.
• Manufacturing Execution Systems ( MES ) 2/5 - Software Systems.
• Network Tools 1/2.
• Software As A Service ( SAAS ) 1/2.

• The OpenSource Apache ServiceMix - “An open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that combines the functionality of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Event Driven Architecture (EDA)”.
• EN.Wikipedia "Apache ServiceMix", DE.Wikipedia "Apache ServiceMix".
• EN.Wikipedia "Fuse ESB".

• JBoss ESB.
• EN.Wikipedia "JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform".

• The OpenSource MuleSoft "Mule ESB - integration at cloud speed" - “Mule ESB Community Edition”.
• MuleSoft "MuleSoft Developers".
  • Mulesoft Community "Connectors" ( formerly: “MuleForge”, “MuleSoft Extensions” ).
• MuleSoft "Anypoint Platform".
• NETWAYS GmbH "Mule Enterprise Service Bus".
• EN.Wikipedia "Mule (software)", DE.Wikipedia "Mule (Software)".
• EN.Wikipedia "MuleSoft".

• Open ESB, BitBucket "openesb".
• EN.Wikipedia "Open ESB".

• Talend.
  • Talend "Open Source ESB. Talend is the Best Source for Open Source ESB.
• TalentForge.
• EN.Wikipedia "Talend".

• WSO2 ESB.
• EN.Wikipedia "WSO2".

• DZone "Top Open Source ESB Projects".

• IBM "IBM Integration Bus" for Windows 64-bit and Linux 64-bit.
  • The commercial “IBM Integration Bus”.
  • The free “IBM Integration Bus for Developers. fully licensed software, at no charge”. It includes “IBM WebSphere MQ” and is by this a valuable free GUI tool for developers to play with MQTT Protocol. E.g. to explore how “Last Will and Testament” messaging works.
• The just-commercial addon IBM "IBM Integration Bus Manufacturing Pack".

1. IBM Knowledge Center "IBM Integration Bus / Reference / Message flow development / Transformation interfaces / ESQL reference" - “SQL is the industry standard language for accessing and updating database data and ESQL is a language derived from SQL Version 3, particularly suited to manipulating both database and message data”.
2. Java.
3. .NET.

• MQTT servers like “IBM WebSphere MQ” don´t change the contents of a message. “IBM Integration Bus” however can transform messages to other formats.
• “IBM Integration Bus” is designed according to the rule “Parsers do the work” .
• 2 kind of flows:
  1. Message flow.
     • “Fast” - Terminates within milliseconds.
     • Mandatory: Should be transaction safe.
  2. Business workflow.
     • “Slow” - Might run in several business process steps for even some days.
     • May be defined by a business modelling language, e.g. BPMN.
     • May not be transaction safe.
• IBM "IBM Integration Community".
• IBM Support "IBM Integration Bus for Developers Version 9.0".
• IBM Knowledge Center "IBM Integration Bus 9.0.0 / IBM WebSphere Message Broker Information Center".
  • IBM Knowledge Center "Installing WebSphere MQ server on Linux Ubuntu".
• IBM Developerworks "IBM Integration", "Get started with IBM Integration Bus Version 9".
• IBM Integration Community "Download IBM Integration Bus".
• IBM Developerworks "Get started with IBM Integration Bus for Developers".

• Microsoft BizTalk Server ( english ), Microsoft BizTalk Server ( german ).
• Microsoft BizTalk Server "Editions".
• Micrsoft MSDN "Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit"
• Microsoft MSDN "Introduction to the BizTalk ESB Toolkit".
• Microsoft MSDN "The Internet Service Bus".
• Microsoft MSDN BizTalk Server Developer Center "BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1" / "What Is an Enterprise Service Bus?".
• Microsoft BizTalk Server "Enterprise Service Bus" ( - 2013-01-22 ) - “Microsoft BizTalk Server ESB Guidance”.

• Stack Overflow "Is BizTalk an ESB?".

• Experts told me: It is easy to code a service to collect data in a single data format and single data protocol ( e.g. a web service ), but if you add other protocols and need data transformation, you are stuck. An ESB is the alternative: By filters, parsers and import modules, an ESB may collect data in any format and transform the data to any other format.
• It is imporant to find the right position for an ESB in a manufacution environment:
  • A PLC on the shop floor which can process and transform multiple communication protocols, has sort of ESB functionality.
  • Some see an ESB on the level of a MES system, or even between MES and enterprise software.
  • In an infrastructure without PLCs, the ESB might be even in the “Cloud” and collect and process all messages from IOT devices.
• A vision of a possible future:
  • Microservices for each facility / on any device.
  • Big data analysis services on servers in datacenters or in the Cloud.
  • Dashboard on any tablet / smartphone / notebook.
• EN.Wikipedia "Enterprise service bus", DE.Wikipedia "Enterprise Service Bus" ( ESB ), EN.Wikipedia "SAP Enterprise Services Architecture" ( ESA ).

• MuleSoft Forums.
• OpenESB Community Forum.
• TalentForge Forum.