Is anyone else tinkering with JBI ? I'm considering integrating it with my Rife app to get both web services and good external multiprotocol connectivity.
Apache ServiceMix is an (AFICT) nice open source implementation of the JBI ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). The internal architecture is message-based, for loose coupling among components. The internal message bus handles normalised XML messages, thus the ESB is also known as a "Normalized Message Router". "Service Units" plug into this bus to provide services, and "Binding Connectors" plug into the bus to do message and protocol translation to external connections. There are some shortcuts provided so that you can put thin wrappers around POJOs and then use them as Service Units. AFAICT it's a short, effective path to getting web services up and running. Plus there's BCs for email, http (incl. an http invoker), ftp, jms,jca, rss, jabber, file systems, saaj, and more. fred -- F.Baube * Georgetown/MSFS/1988 * Think pangalactically. fbaube#saunalahti.fi * Act locally. gsm +358 41 536 8192 * wmd 60°11'10.8"N 24°57'36.9"E _______________________________________________ Rife-users mailing list Rife-users@uwyn.com http://lists.uwyn.com/mailman/listinfo/rife-users
