Harald Frank

Evaluating the messaging and routing functions of an Open Source Enterprise Service Bus Harald Frank

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,0, University of Regensburg, language: English, comment: Serviceorientierte Architketur, Enterprise Service Bus und Web Services haben den Sprung von Schlagworten zu einsatzfähigen Konzepten und Werkzeugen geschafft und zeigen eine rasante Entwicklung. Lukas Feuerstein (ID: a524532) und Harald Frank (ID: a415771) untersuchen die Messaging und Routing Funktionen eines Open Source ESB. Nach einer Einordnung des ESB in das SOA Konzept und der Erarbeitung grundlegender Eigenschaften und Funktionen eines ESB zeigen sie anhand einer illustrativen Fallstudie die beispielhafte Umsetzung eines ESB (Apache Service Mix). , abstract: Enterprise Service Busses and related concepts like Service Oriented Architectures are increasing in popularity. Businesses are facing new challenges and networking, inter- and intra enterprise cooperation and collaboration are getting more and more crucial for being ahead of the competitors. Enterprise Service Buses are providing a necessary, high- scalable and flexible IT architecture for integration, an improved communication, and reducing complexity at least in theory. The major goal of this project seminar is to examine the practical use of ESB. The first part of this documentation will provide the reader with some theoretical foundations on the Enterprise Service Bus, integration paradigms and some required functions of Enterprise Service Buses. The following section will then focus on one specific Open Source ESB - the Apache ServiceMix that will be presented briefly. Its main functions and concepts will be examined in detail. Furthermore the setup of a generic development environment, debugging principles and tools will be described. The following part is the development of an explorative case study that illustrates important features and characteristics of an ESB in a practical way. The focus is to illustrate the routing an