Implementing an open source enterprise service bus

Summary form only given. The ability to connect distributed, heterogeneous applications and services (old and new) allows IT departments to reduce time spent in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). In order to achieve such lofty goals, applications must be de-coupled in such a way that limits interface dependencies, while providing a means to alter the underlying service implementation without affecting the service contract. An enterprise service bus (ESB) can be used to centrally manage entire suites of applications running incompatible transport bindings and even mediating different messaging characteristics (synchronous vs. asynchronous). To date, there are many ESB vendors on the market. I´ll be focusing on some of the ESB features I believe to be most useful in a distributed applications environment as well as the OSS implementations currently supporting such features. Finally, I´ll present a practical example, depicting how to leverage an OSS ESB implementation that provides an adaptor into two different service offerings