Mule Open Source ESB Case Study at TheServerSide.com
Submitted by fdomke on Mon, 01/22/2007 - 00:00
Eugene Ciurana, the director of platform technology at Walmart.com Global and the enterprise architect at Walmart.com recently wrote an excellent case study introduction to ESBs and enterprise integration using Mule, the open-source ESB for TheServerSide. Eugene included the following heads-up comparison of major ESB choices:
|
Product |
Vendor |
Connects with… |
| Matrix BusinessWorks | TIBCO | SOAP, EMS, JMS, Rendezvous, MQ, BPEL |
| Mule ESB | Open-source, MuleSource, Inc. | SOAP, REST, JMS, MQ, JBI, AQ, Caching, JavaSpaces, GigaSpaces, Email, IM, JCA, AS400 Data Queues, System I/O. |
| OpenESB | Open-source, Sun Microsystems | JBI, JCA, JAX-RPC, JAX-WS |
| Sonic ESB | Progress Software | JMS, SOAP, JMX |
| Websphere ESB | IBM | JMS, MQ, SOAP; requires additional adapters to interface with other products and legacy protocols; requires Websphere to work |
Table 1
Business Integration Technology agrees with the decision to use Mule based on these criteria:
- Active open-source community and commercial support available
- State of the art implementation and ability to run under Java 5/6
- Number of relevant features out of the box
- Response time from vendors within 48 hours (average time for the winners was 2 hours)
- Ease of installation and deployment
- Ease of configuration and expansion
- “Codeless” integration with legacy, third-party, and commercial products
- Ability to drop in/pull out without incurring lock-in or ancillary product dependencies
- Low total cost of ownership
And we are pleased to include Mule in our open source architecture for integration, our EME enterprise messaging engine.