On 27/11/2007, Robert Thullner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I am writing my master thesis about EAI solutions and open sources > frameworks for it. A part of the thesis shall be to categorize the parts > what make up an EAI solution. So what I try to find now, are categories > which are part of an EAI solution (see the categories I have until now > below). What I will try to do then is to use open source products > (frameworks) in the categories and find scenarios which will be implemented. > I will then try to make assumptions in which scenarios perhaps a MOM is > enough for a solution or under which cases I will need a lot more products, > where I need a combination of products, which combinations are useful, which > do not work together, etc. > > My categories (parts) right now are: > - Message Oriented Middleware, like ActiveMQ, JBossMQ > - ESB, like ServiceMix, Mule > - Pattern implementations, like Camel > - Rule engines, like Drools > - BPEL engines > > My question to you is, what do you think about my categories and which > categories do you think are missing, what would you add to my list? My > intention for this post is to end up in a discussion, so please participate.
Sounds a pretty good list so far. You might wanna add to the list runtime containers (e.g. OSGi/JBI containers like ServiceMix, web containers like Tomcat/Jetty or JEE containers like Geronimo/JBoss). -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://open.iona.com
