It is very easy to create JMS consuming services in the Oracle Service Bus (previously known as BEA AquaLogic Service Bus or ALSB), but one of the things that you may want to control is the number of connections that is used to poll a JMS server. This blog describes the background to JMS listeners in OSB and how to solve problems with the JMS server being overloaded with connections. In this particular case, the JMS server is actually an IBM Websphere MQ server but most of the principles also apply to different JMS implementations.
Tags: esb, Middleware, SOA
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This is not a rant against ESB. I am not saying that ESBs never have a purpose, nor suggest that it's all just a scam. If - after having read this post - you got the impression that I suspect a conspiracy behind ESB, then I want to tell you up front that this is certainly not what I intended to say.
Tags: esb, integration, messaging, SOA, spring integration
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Many have assumption that IT / software architecture is a thing of logic. So, there are many discussions about ESB and that we should not have those. The fact is that in large companies, we do not often do architecture - we do politecture. The politics drive the architecture. It's not the way it should be, but that's the way it is.
Let's do one more shot...why do we need ESB? This time from politecture perspective:
Preventing a mess
It allows for a greater degree of control on delivered solutions. Before you even think about creating another quick and dirty integration solution; there is that annoying ESB compliancy making sure that integration mess created with each new technology is at least visible.
Disruptive Innovation
An alternative like REST is a "disruptive innovation" and does not fit in the line of old mindsets (CORBA, RMI, EJB, SOAP, WS-*,...). ESB fits in this line. Of course, it is a matter of time before something like REST wins from ESB's.
Legacy
Quite often the cleanest solution is to change or replace the legacy in case of integration problems. So you still don't need an ESB. But the real problem is who is going to let you change that legacy that has not been changed and (barely) working in production for a long time.
Tags: Architecture, esb, SOA
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Last week I installed WebLogic and the AquaLogic Service Bus on a Mac. There is no Mac-download on the download page, but by using the HP-UX version everything works fine, you just have to add some command line parameters.