WS02 e Soluções para Open-Source SOA

WSO2 é um companhia baseada no Sri Lanka que desenvolve middleware open-source. Foi fundada a pouco mais de 2 anos atrás por Sanjiva Weerawarana, um ex-IBM que trabalhou (nos EUA) em vários projetos (Apache SOAP, a definição do WSDL, definição do BPEL etc) e decidiu desenvolver soluções abertas a partir deste país da Ásia. 

Entre outros produtos e frameworks a empresa desenvolve:

• Enterprise Service Bus: ESB "leve" baseado no Apache Synapse
  
• Web Services Application Server: Web services engine powered by Apache AXIS
• Mashup Server: plataforma baseada em Javascript que promete deploys rápidos de Web Services mashups

A lista completa de produtos está aqui.

A documentação do WSO2 ESB pode ser acessada neste Wiki que foi desenvolvido para a comunidade.

JBossESB 4.0 Released

JBossESB 4.0 was just released. According to this news the next version (4.x?, 5.0?...) will be ready later year (2007). Below some features in this release:

• support for general notification framework. Transports supported include JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging and MQSeries), email, database or file system.
• trailblazer example.
• many quickstart examples to get you going.
• support for data transformations using Smooks or XSLT.
• listeners and action model to support loose-coupling of interaction steps.
• content based routing using JBoss Rules or XPath.
• support for registries, using JAX-R and jUDDI out-of-the-box.
• gateways to allow non-ESB aware traffic to flow into the ESB.
• high performance and reliability (in use by a large insurance company for 3 years).(*)

* probably it refers to the second-largest insurance company in Canada, where this ESB handles data from 3,000 employers and more that 2,0 million customers.

See an abstract view of ESB/SOA infrastructure:

Hyperic: Managing your MULE (open source ESB)

MuleSource has announced that will use Hyperic HQ (from Hyperic), as the foundation for its new monitoring and management system, Mule HQ.

Hyperic developes two versions of an Hyperic HQ (IT management platform). One of them, Hyperic HQ, is open source.

According to this press-release,

...The new Mule HQ management tools will be available to MuleSource customers in Q4 2006.

With Mule HQ, enterprises using Mule in production will gain the ability to:

• Monitor and manage Mule instances from a single location
• Achieve integrated log, configuration, and server event tracking
• Auto-Discover Mule servers, associated software and hardware
• Report real-time and historical details of any event generated by any managed resource

About Mule:
Mule (http://mule.mulesource.org) is a Java-based, open source ESB and integration platform that enables enterprise developers to perform a wide variety of integration tasks, from bringing new applications into production, to modernizing legacy applications and platforms, to enabling SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). With hundreds of production deployments worldwide, Mule is the industry’s most battle-tested open source integration approach.

About Hyperic:
Hyperic HQ (http://www.hyperic.org) is the industry’s best and most comprehensive product to manage a software stack in production, whether it's J2EE-based, open source, or a hybrid. An extensible system, Hyperic HQ monitors virtually all kinds of operating systems, web servers, app servers and database servers, and can be extended to monitor most types of applications—both at a technical and business level.

See here the server and the agent architetcure.