ServiceMix is one of the very first working ESBs that includes support for all of the JBI 1.0 APIs, enabling you to explore and evaluate the potential benefits of an Enterprise Service Bus.
A good introduction can be found at: Plug into JBI with ServiceMix
Month: June 2006
XML/XSL Tools
I’m currently investigating some open source ESB products. I’m am trying to find out whether they are mature enough for production use. Especially ServiceMix is very promising.
In order to develop a new EAI or BPM application it’s also important to have some tools at hand which make developers life a bit easier. Two or them are:
1. XML Schema generator
Trang let’s you generate XML Schemas from XML documents without installing a heavyweight development tool. Just type in:
java -jar trang.jar order.xml order_schema.xsd
2. XSLT Mapper
Jamper let’s you create XSLT-Mappings with a drag and drop GUI like in Biztalk or Aqualogic. It’s a bit rudimentary but much better than using notepad or vi.