Message Oriented Middleware Vendor Lists

Use this page as a starting point for exploring the world of Message Oriented Middleware and Application Integration. This is an evolving list of software vendors in this emerging market. Product descriptions were taken from vendor web pages. We will add other vendors and products as we become aware of them. Remember, too, that many of these companies offer other products and professional services.

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Basic Message Oriented Middleware

Basic Message Oriented Middleware provides connectionless, asynchronous transactional message store-and-forward capability. Products. Basic message oriented middleware can serve as the core of a message broker.

Message Switches

Message Switches provide high speed, high volume, and high integrity transactional message passing capabilities. Products. They are frequently implemented on fault-tolerant servers.

Data Transformation Tools

Data Transformation tools provide such services as simple field reordering, code page translation, data validation and filtering, sophisticated message modification and reformatting, and message division and combination.  Products.

Integration Brokers

Message Brokering is an approach to using middleware, but recently products have come into the market that implement the approach as a single offering. Products. Integration broker services include message queuing, message dictionary, message warehouse, message transformation, message routing, and systems management capability. Many also provide publish-and-subscribe service.

Enterprise Service Bus/Service Oriented Architecture

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) refers to a software architecture typically implemented by middleware infrastucture technologies. An ESB is usually based on recognized standards and provide foundation services via an event-driven and standards-based messaging engine.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a computer systems architectural style for creating and using business processes packaged as services and managing any particular service throughout its lifecycle. Products.

Work Flow Products

Workflow began as a component of image and document management systems, but the workflow aspects when combined in a message broker forms the basis for enterprise work management. Products.

Systems Management Tools

A crucial component of any message oriented middleware implementation should be some type of systems management tool. Products.

Developer Tools

This is a list of products for developers to use in creating transactional messaging applications or adapters to applications that are not natively messaging aware.

Other Products

This is a list of products not otherwise categorized.

Last updated 31 Jan 2009