<<Sun Microsystems Inc. officially entered the enterprise service bus
(ESB) market today, rolling out its first upgrade of the former
SeeBeyond Inc. messaging middleware and tying it together with Sun's
portal, application server, Web server and development studio
offerings as part of a single platform.
{Everyone's just kind of putting the ESB label on everything these days.
Shawn Willett
Pprincipal Analyst, Current Analysis Inc.}
The platform, called the Composite Application Platform, will be
available at the end of March for a free download with a $100 per
employee per year subscription price for those companies that wish to
add services and support. SeeBeyond, purchased by Sun last June, had
it's roots as an enterprise application integration vendor, but Sun
believes the middleware has evolved to embody the loosely coupled
ethos of service oriented architecture.
"We scale, we integrate with all the technologies out there, we
support all the Web services standards, this is a full-fledged ESB,"
said Joe Keller, vice president of marketing for SOA and integration
platforms at Sun. He added that the SeeBeyond product, now called the
Sun Java ESB Suite, offers Java Messaging Service-based distributed
agents that can operate with no communications hub required.
Business process management, workflow and data transformation are also
part of the ESB suite.
Sun has already launched what it calls the Open ESB community. That
group so far has concentrated on working with the Java Business
Integration (JBI) specification, but Keller noted that the Business
Process Execution Language engine will be the first component of the
Java ESB Suite to submit its code to Open ESB, probably around the
time of the JavaOne conference in May.
Oddly, the ESB does not yet support JBI, but Keller promised
interoperability would be added later this year.>>
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Gervas
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