ESB's (Enterprise Service Bus) have a big role to play in an SOA. Don't take my word for it take a look at the results of this poll which shows that 84% use an ESB in there SOA. Some use multiple.
If you are on the look for an Lightweight Open Source ESB make sure you checkout the WSO2 ESB.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Training on Apache Synapse & WSO2 ESB
Last week I had a great opportunity to attend a two day training on Apache Synapse and the WSO2 ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). This was an internal training conducted by Asankha. The first day of the training focused on what the WSO2 ESB is and how users would use it. He also took us through all the in built mediators of the ESB. The second day of the training focused on how the ESB Works. For me this was the most interesting part of the training.
Transports are a major part of an ESB. Asankha took us into detail of each transport, the most interesting was the JMS transport and the NHTTP Transport (Non Blocking HTTP Transport). I had played around with the JMS Transport in the mashup server. I even wrote an article on how the JMS Transport can b used in the mashup server. Knowing how to use something is different from knowing how it works.
Next in line was the most anticipated NHTTP Transport. This was the major component of the ESB and all its great performance was due to it. It was s pleasure to get to know how it works.
Prior to this i had used the WSO2 ESB on a customer project and getting to know how it works was really intriguing.
Transports are a major part of an ESB. Asankha took us into detail of each transport, the most interesting was the JMS transport and the NHTTP Transport (Non Blocking HTTP Transport). I had played around with the JMS Transport in the mashup server. I even wrote an article on how the JMS Transport can b used in the mashup server. Knowing how to use something is different from knowing how it works.
Next in line was the most anticipated NHTTP Transport. This was the major component of the ESB and all its great performance was due to it. It was s pleasure to get to know how it works.
Prior to this i had used the WSO2 ESB on a customer project and getting to know how it works was really intriguing.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Tough Competition Brings Out The Best
India vs Pakistan is big when it comes to anything. Cricket is no different to that and India vs Pakistan is one of the most hard fought contest you could ever find. India and Pakistan clashed in a crucial Asia Cup 2008 match yesterday. What a clinical chase it was by Pakistan who hunted down the mammoth 308 scored by India. Pakistan was under pressure as they had already lost to Sri Lanka and they needed a victory to keep there hopes alive of getting into the finals. Sri Lanka had already booked their place in the final.
On a placid batsman friendly wicket India posted 308. Chasing down anything over 300 is not easy and to do it under so much pressure takes a lot of courage. Whats more Pakistan were without their regular captain Shoaib Malik and it was Misbah-ul-Haq who had to fill his shoes. Misbah is new to the scene having played just 39 matches and he showed tremendous maturity in yesterday's Match.
What I want to highlight here is that Tough Competition Brings Out The Best. It can bring out the best of a person, company or even a Product. Thats exactly what happened in yesterday's match. Pakistan was under so much pressure and that brought the best out of Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan.
The same can be said about software. Lets take the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for example. We did some performance testing on comparing the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with some other Open Source and proprietary ESBs. If you take a look at Round 1 and Round 2 you would see that the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was the fastest. Now take a look at the latest (Round 3) results too. The proprietary ESB which was slower in the previous rounds showed better performance. Competition brought the best out of it. I'm pretty sure that this result will encourage our ESB team to perform better next time. Tough competition is always good and it helps us improve our selves.
The same can be said about the WSO2 Registry. This has stiff competition from Mule Galaxy another open source registry. You can see a comparison of the WSO2 Registry and Mule Galaxy here which was done by Deepal.
On a placid batsman friendly wicket India posted 308. Chasing down anything over 300 is not easy and to do it under so much pressure takes a lot of courage. Whats more Pakistan were without their regular captain Shoaib Malik and it was Misbah-ul-Haq who had to fill his shoes. Misbah is new to the scene having played just 39 matches and he showed tremendous maturity in yesterday's Match.
What I want to highlight here is that Tough Competition Brings Out The Best. It can bring out the best of a person, company or even a Product. Thats exactly what happened in yesterday's match. Pakistan was under so much pressure and that brought the best out of Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan.
The same can be said about software. Lets take the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for example. We did some performance testing on comparing the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with some other Open Source and proprietary ESBs. If you take a look at Round 1 and Round 2 you would see that the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was the fastest. Now take a look at the latest (Round 3) results too. The proprietary ESB which was slower in the previous rounds showed better performance. Competition brought the best out of it. I'm pretty sure that this result will encourage our ESB team to perform better next time. Tough competition is always good and it helps us improve our selves.
The same can be said about the WSO2 Registry. This has stiff competition from Mule Galaxy another open source registry. You can see a comparison of the WSO2 Registry and Mule Galaxy here which was done by Deepal.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Learn About The Fastest Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Around
You may have already seen how fast the WSO2 Enterprise service Bus (ESB) is. Want to learn how to use this ultra fast, light-weight and versatile Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) powered by the Apache Synapse ESB?
Well we got an answer for you. Join our free webinar series this July. There will be four webinars in total ranging from an "Introduction to the WSO2 ESB" to more advanced scenarios such as "Using the WSO2 ESB and FIX - supporting Financial messaging".
FIX support is the latest addition to the WSO2 ESB which is available in the recently released 1.7 version. This series of webinars will be presented by Paul Fremantle, CTO at WSO2 together with Asankha Perera ( ESB Architect), Asanka Abeysinghe (Architect) and Ruwan Linton (Senior Software Engineer).
Well we got an answer for you. Join our free webinar series this July. There will be four webinars in total ranging from an "Introduction to the WSO2 ESB" to more advanced scenarios such as "Using the WSO2 ESB and FIX - supporting Financial messaging".
FIX support is the latest addition to the WSO2 ESB which is available in the recently released 1.7 version. This series of webinars will be presented by Paul Fremantle, CTO at WSO2 together with Asankha Perera ( ESB Architect), Asanka Abeysinghe (Architect) and Ruwan Linton (Senior Software Engineer).
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Performance Revealed
It was recently that WSO2 released the 1.7 version of its Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This release is based on Apache Synapse 1.2 which in turn is built on Apache Axis2 1.4.
There are many things that come in to play when deciding on which ESB to go with. Some of them are Performance, Licensing, Usability, Stability... etc. WSO2 has always been at the forefront when it comes to benchmarking ESB performance. You can find previous performance comparisons here and here. We've always been open as to how we conduct them and has always tried to get help from the relevant projects on how to configure them best.
Asankha the product manager of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) recently published performance results based on its 1.7 release. The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was compared with other leading implementations - both open source and proprietary. This comparison was done against a leading proprietary ESB, the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB, Apache Service Mix 3.2.1 and Mule Community Edition 2.0.1 (Mule CE). We cannot disclose the names of these proprietary ESB's cause they have a clause in there License saying that "Thou shalt not publish any performance results against us".
The results were pretty impressive. The WSO2 ESB outperformed all open source alternatives and it also outperformed the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB. Now what does that mean? The WSO2 ESB is the fastest open source ESB around (And thats with no specific performance tuning, Expect better results in the time to come.). The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) also displayed excellent stability on all scenarios.
Another interesting observation is that 1% of all requests sent to Mule CE 2.0.1 failing. Now who would want to use such a product in a production environment?
There are many things that come in to play when deciding on which ESB to go with. Some of them are Performance, Licensing, Usability, Stability... etc. WSO2 has always been at the forefront when it comes to benchmarking ESB performance. You can find previous performance comparisons here and here. We've always been open as to how we conduct them and has always tried to get help from the relevant projects on how to configure them best.
Asankha the product manager of the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) recently published performance results based on its 1.7 release. The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was compared with other leading implementations - both open source and proprietary. This comparison was done against a leading proprietary ESB, the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB, Apache Service Mix 3.2.1 and Mule Community Edition 2.0.1 (Mule CE). We cannot disclose the names of these proprietary ESB's cause they have a clause in there License saying that "Thou shalt not publish any performance results against us".
The results were pretty impressive. The WSO2 ESB outperformed all open source alternatives and it also outperformed the proprietary version of an Open Source ESB. Now what does that mean? The WSO2 ESB is the fastest open source ESB around (And thats with no specific performance tuning, Expect better results in the time to come.). The WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) also displayed excellent stability on all scenarios.
Another interesting observation is that 1% of all requests sent to Mule CE 2.0.1 failing. Now who would want to use such a product in a production environment?
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