JBoss ESB Sniffer

The paper presents a tool called JBoss ESB Sniffer, which was developed within the frame of the European project ARUM. The project is focused on optimization of the ramp-up and small lot production processes that are facing constant disturbances and error events. The proposed solution applies the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology for integration of heterogeneous tools and legacy systems. In such a distributed environment with multiple interacting services it is of crucial importance to have the overview of the flow of messages to help monitoring and understanding of the overall state of the system. A new visualization tool developed for the JBoss ESB message bus is presented in the paper. Additionally, the mechanism for description of service interfaces and interactions based on WSDL and FIPA standards is presented.