ESB & SOA

Enterprise Service Bus/Service Oriented Architecture

Commercial

Product	Vendor	Description
AquaLogic Service Bus	BEA	BEA AquaLogic® Service Bus 3.0 is a proven, lightweight SOA integration platform. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, and multiple enterprise service bus (ESB) instances across an enterprise-wide service network. It performs end-to-end governance and management through integration with BEA AquaLogic registry, repository, and SOA management products.
Emergin Enterprise Service Bus	Emergin	The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), powered by Emergin, provides standards-based integration across the enterprise. Given that most enterprise organizations have legacy systems that don't conform to web services, Emergin provides adapters to help migrate proprietary third party vendors to a common, standards-based XML format. The Enterprise Service Bus is an open, scalable service bus that can be implemented one component service at a time or as an enterprise-wide solution. The Enterprise Service Bus provides global score cards and dashboards to monitor progress and measure performance for every event across the enterprise. Researching and continuously evaluating real-time events through root cause analysis transcripts can help detect human errors and system malfunctions to proactively drive service levels to peak performance.
Fiorano Enterprise Service Bus™	Fiorano	The Fiorano ESB™ is a web-services capable middleware infrastructure platform that supports intelligently-directed communication and mediated relationships between loosely coupled ( SOA ) and decoupled ( EDA ) business components. Unlike other platforms, Fiorano ESB supports both SOA and EDA over a single technology base, with a single repository, business component model, design, development and deployment tools, together with common tools for security and administration.
Interstage Service Integrator	Fujitsu	Interstage Service Integrator (ISI) utilizes industry standard technologies like Web Services, JMS, and FTP to facilitate the collaboration of enterprise applications and services. Interstage Service Integrator helps resolve integration related issues.
Fusion Middleware ESB	Oracle	Oracle Enterprise Service Bus provides everything you need for seamless integration of data and enterprise applications within your organization and with trading partners. Oracle Enterprise Service Bus is a key component of a Service-Oriented Architecture, providing low-cost, standards-based integration between systems for greater IT flexibility and responsiveness. SOA allows organizations to more easily manage the complexity of their heterogeneous environment, without vendor lock-in to proprietary technologies. (Oracle ESB is part of Oracle SOA Suite)
Fusion Middleware SOA Suite	Oracle	The Oracle SOA suite consists of: Oracle JDeveloper Oracle Business Rules Oracle BPEL Process Manager Oracle Business Activity Monitoring Oracle Web Services Manager Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
Progress Sonic ESB	Progress Software	Progress® Sonic ESB® is a messaging-based enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and flexible re-use of business applications within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic ESB eliminates the rigidity and fragility of point-to-point integration with a robust, event-driven architecture that can evolve, scale and extend throughout the enterprise.
Sun Java Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Suite	Sun	The Java ESB Suite provides a suite of products for developing a Web Services-based integration platform in a heterogeneous environment. The suite is based on open standards, and is composed of core functionality from Java CAPS—one of the leading enterprise integration platforms for building service-oriented architectures (SOA) and composite applications. It is the right solution for companies wanting to get started with SOA-based business integration.
webMethods Integration and Enterprise Service Bus	Software AG	The webMethods ESB Platform allows you to create a more agile enterprise while maximizing existing IT investments. Based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the webMethods ESB platform enables businesses to move quickly to address changing market needs. SOA provides your application developers a single standards-based platform to quickly and efficiently develop new applications while maximizing existing investments. The webMethods ESB includes all of the tools you need to integrate your existing applications and partners. At its core, is an advanced ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) that provides the foundation for your SOA with enterprise-class features you need, ensuring success. It uniquely combines proven application integration capabilities, high-speed messaging, support for B2B, legacy applications and event-driven technologies to create the most complete integration infrastructure available.

Other Vendors

Several vendors define assemblages of their products as an ESB. Among these are:

Cape Clear based on Cape Clear Server, Cape Clear SOA Assembly Editor, Cape Clear BPEL Orchestrator, Cape Clear BAM
IBM based on WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50
Microsoft based on BizTalk, MSMQ, and .NET framework
TIBCO based on TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™, TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Service Grid, TIBCO Adapters™, TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Policy Manager, TIBCO ActiveMatrix™ Registry

Note that these vendors have been active in the application integration market for a long time. Not having a product specifically labeled ESB should not necessarily be construed as a simple repackaging of old products. While in some cases, the components represent recent acquisitions, all these vendors are aiming at a seamless implementation. These links are to particular pages in these vendors' web sites and are subject to change.

Open Source

Product	Vendor	Description
Celtix ESB	OW2 Consortium	Celtix delivers a Java enterprise service bus (ESB) runtime and set of extensibility APIs, simplifying the construction, integration and flexible reuse of technical and business components using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture.
JBoss ESB	Red Hat, JBoss, JBoss Labs	JBossESB is the next generation of EAI - better and without the vendor-lockin characteristics of old. As such, many of the capabilities mirror those of existing EAI offerings: Business Process Monitoring, Integrated Development Environment, Human Workflow User Interface, Business Process Management, Connectors, Transaction Manager, Security, Application Container, Messaging Service, Metadata Repository, Naming and Directory Service, Distributed Computing Architecture.
Mule	MuleSource	Mule is a messaging platform based on ideas from Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architectures. An ESB works by acting as a sort of transit system for carrying data between applications within or outside your intranet. The ESB defines a series of stops, or "endpoints", through which applications can send or receive data onto or from the system. The heart of the system, the messaging bus, is what routes messages between endpoints.
Open ESB	java.net (Sun, O'Reilly)	Project Open ESB implements an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) runtime using Java Business Integration as the foundation. This allows easy integration of web services to create loosely coupled enterprise class composite applications.

SOA Governance

A number of software companies are beginning to offer governance packages for Service Oriented Architecture. This is a rapidly growing market, so check back here or search the web for additional information. Some offer software to assist in SOA Governance where others offer a solution in the form of a framework and methodology. In most of those cases, multiple individual products support the SOA Governance framework.

One caveat in all this is that many vendors define SOA governance in different ways. For more on that, you might refer to a David Linthicum blog posting on InfoWorld entitled "Real World SOA."

Product	Vendor	Description
HP SOA Center	HP	HP SOA Systinet, a part of HP SOA Center, is an integral part of HP's BTO for SOA offerings. It enables consumers of SOA services to easily find and understand the services that are being offered. It allows you to establish consistency, interoperability and formal agreements between the consumers and providers of SOA services. HP SOA Systinet is a SOA governance and it helps your organization reduce the overall impact of service changes by managing services from introduction to retirement. Overall, HP SOA Systinet provides a complete SOA registry/repository and set of SOA governance applications.
Integrated SOA Governance	SOA Software	We offer the best in class governance solutions for all SOA platforms. See how we work with the following: Microsoft IBM SAP BEA JBoss
Mule Galaxy	Mule Source	By providing a full complement of SOA governance, registry and repository features -- including lifecycle, dependency and artifact management, along with auto-discovery of services and reporting, Mule Galaxy helps you get control over your infrastructure. In addition to services, Mule Galaxy also acts as a repository for WS* frameworks, Mule configurations and any other artifact that needs management and governance. Galaxy makes these artifacts accessible via a web browser or Atom Publishing interface for ease of use and consumption. Galaxy can be deployed either alongside the Mule ESB and tools as a part of a larger Mule architecture, or as a standalone component in an enterprise's SOA infrastructure.
SOA Governance: AquaLogic® Registry Repository, AquaLogic® SOA Management	BEA	AquaLogic® Registry Repository: As a key technology for integrated, end-to-end governance of the SOA lifecycle, BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository addresses common SOA challenges head-on: Lack of visibility into planned and existing services Growing complexities in the enterprise, both business and IT Inability to manage the impact of change Limited, if any, insight into demonstrated savings, ROI and benefits AquaLogic® SOA Management: BEA AquaLogic SOA Management delivers critical capabilities at each stage of the SOA lifecycle—from development through QA and into production. Its benefits include: Delivers a bird's eye view of operational health and service dependencies Brings predictability and control to SOA systems Detects and prevents service problems for federated, distributed environments Detects, diagnoses and remedies exceptions before they can impact business Lowers application-support costs and IT overheads—rapid diagnosis and problem resolution Meets the assurances of your SOA
SOA Governance and Service Lifecycle Management	IBM	SOA governance is an extension of IT governance that focuses on the lifecycle of services and composite applications in an organization’s service-oriented architecture (SOA). The function of SOA governance is to define: Decision rights for the development, deployment and management of new services. Monitoring and reporting processes for capturing and communicating governance results. Because SOA applications are intrinsically fragmented, they introduce new governance challenges. But with the proper policies, principles, standards, procedures and processes in place, businesses can realize the full benefit of service orientation. An effective SOA governance platform not only helps business and IT teams better identify which projects contribute most to business goals, but it also empowers employees to work and collaborate more efficiently by clearly defining their roles and responsibilities.
Web Layers Center	Web Layers	The WebLayers Center™ family of products provides a policy-based approach to automate what has traditionally been a manual, labor intensive process of defining and enforcing governance. In use today at many of the world’s largest companies and government agencies, WebLayers Center is the only solution to ensure compliance throughout the lifecycle which provides the necessary visibility and guidance to govern effectively.