<<The ESB is dead. Long live the ESB.
While major vendors like IBM and BEA Systems Inc. have rushed into
the enterprise service bus market this year, more established ESB
vendors have been rushing to recast their products as far more than
a method of middleware connectivity. In fact, the latest
announcement coming out of Fiorano Software Inc. brands its overall
product as a service-oriented architecture platform, not an ESB.
The difference, according to Fiorano CEO Atul Saini, lies in
business process orchestration and prebuilt Java Connector
Architecture (JCA) components. Instead of supplying pure
connectivity, the Fiorano SOA Platform 2006 looks to provide some
intelligence around that connectivity and even hand over some basic
business components that customers can reuse when creating Web
services.
{The dependency on consulting can only be reduced if you reduce the
bloody complexity. Without that, you won't save time or money.
Atul Saini
CEO, Fiorano Software Inc.}
"The ESB by itself is of limited value," Saini said. "It adds
intelligent direction routing to what we've seen from previous
generations of middleware and that's it."
But Saini isn't throwing the ESB under the bus. Fiorano's ESB lies
at the heart of its SOA platform.
"Messaging has to be done if you're using different machines," he
said. "Once you start using multiple endpoints something has to be
in the middle."
The ESB provides the nervous system for the visual mapping tools,
the JCA components and the Business Process Execution Language
(BPEL) service modeling that form Fiorano's SOA platform. Like
competitor Cape Clear Software Inc., which will announce its latest
set of upgrades later this month, Fiorano plans to attack the market
with the message that all of the associated functionality it has
built around the ESB will make SOA adoption a simpler, less
expensive proposition.
ZapThink LLC analyst Ron Schmelzer said the ESB market never
attracted a lot of money in the first place and now that IBM, BEA
and open source ESBs are entering the space, it leaves even fewer
pickings for the companies that built the category. He added that
ESBs seem to have lost some cache as IT shops grapple with the
larger issues of building to a service-oriented design.>>
You can find this at:
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid2
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I don't know if Mr. Saini had cut his hand or was merely swearing in
exasperation, but ESBs seem to be a theme that arouses strong
emotions in this Group.
Gervas
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