Spoilt for Choice: How to Choose the Right Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?
I had a very interesting talk at OOP 2013 in Germany. OOP is a great conference for software architects and decision makers. The topic of my talk was “Spoilt for Choice: How to Choose the Right Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)”. Hereby, I want to share the slides with you…
Abstract
Data exchanges in and between companies increase a lot. The number of applications which must be integrated increases, too. As solution, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) can be used in almost every integration project – no matter which technologies, transport protocols, data formats, or environments such as Java or .NET are used. All integration projects can be realized in a consistent way without redundant boilerplate code. However, an ESB offers many further features, such as business process management (BPM), master data management, business activity monitoring, or big data. Plenty of ESB products are on the market which differ a lot regarding concepts, programming models, tooling, and open source vs. proprietary. Really one is spoilt for choice.
Learnings
This session shows and compares ESB alternatives and discusses their pros and cons. Besides, a recommendation will be given when to use just a lightweight framework for a specific problem such as systems integration or BPM instead of a (too) powerful ESB. You will also learn what an integration suite is, how it differs from an ESB, and when to use which alternative.
Slides
Here are the slides of my session:
Feel free to tell me your opinions in the comments. I appreciate every feedback!
Best regards,
Kai Wähner (Twitter: @KaiWaehner)
Tags: Apache Camel, Camel, EAI, EIP, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Service Bus, ESB, Fuse ESB, JBoss ESB, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus, SOA, Spring Integration, Switchyard, WebSphere ESB, WSO2 ESB
Wonderful comparision,slides speaks a lot,i wish i was at the presentation.I was scratching the head reading a lot of blogs abt them individually.Thanks o lot for the information
Extremely informative presentation. Thanks a lot. Wondering if you have plans to post the demos as well.
You didn’t discuss much about Biztalk. Does that come under a ESB or an Integration Suite?
Thanks for your feedback.
I will not post any demos. It was just very short product presentations, nothing special.
Microsoft Biztalk is neither an ESB or an Integration Suite, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3355082/is-biztalk-an-esb. If you are looking for a Microsoft ESB, you should take a look at Azure Service Bus. I never used it… It does not look as powerful as ESBs from IBM or Oracle.