Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Software

Enterprise Service Bus

What is Enterprise Service Bus Software?

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is middleware used to allow disparate applications to communicate and distribute work within a service oriented architecture (SOA).​​

Common Features

  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Application Workflow
  • Operating System Agnostic
  • Ease of Adding or Changing Components
  • Certification of Inter Process Communications
  • Programming Language Agnostic
  • Security and Compliance Enforcement
  • Load Balancing
  • Logging and Monitoring
  • Failover
  • Protocol Translation

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Adeptia Connect is a full-featured, enterprise-class integration platform that is driven by an analyst approved, industry proven integration backbone. The enterprise class platform provides comprehensive B2B standards and protocol support to securely connect with any trading partner regardless of size, geography, and technical sophistication.

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WSO2 Inc

WSO2 ESB

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WSO2’s cloud-enabled, 100% open source enterprise service bus (ESB) is a standards-based messaging engine that provides the value of messaging without writing code. It provides data integration capabilities, eliminating the need to use a separate data services server for your integration processes. In addition to short-running, stateless integration flows, the ESB can be used to manage long-running, stateful business processes as well.

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Apache Synapse

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Apache Synapse is a lightweight and high-performance Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Powered by a fast and asynchronous mediation engine, Apache Synapse provides exceptional support for XML, Web Services and REST. In addition to XML and SOAP, Apache Synapse supports several other content interchange formats, such as plain text, binary, Hessian and JSON. The wide range of transport adapters available for Synapse, enables it to communicate over many application and transport layer protocols.

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IBM® Rational® Business Developer provides built-in service constructs and a facility for service generation, allowing business-oriented developers to create service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications without extensive training. It creates Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) services, automates generation of web services from EGL and deploys EGL to IBM CICS® servers, IBM IMS™ (Information Management System) and the IBM i platform. It allows developers to leverage existing development skills by working within the familiar Eclipse-based environment.

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NServiceBus

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Backed by a rock-solid distributed development methodology, a worldwide community of experts, consultants and contributors, NServiceBus offers enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations without any messy XML configuration - just pure-code bliss.

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In the world defined by Digital Transformation, reliable integration mechanisms can be the source of competitive differentiation. What is more, in most of cases, quickly achieved communication goals are a ‘be or not to be’ for any new initiative. ESBeetle helps businesses to connect and launch any new initiative or improve existing application architecture without any struggle with high cost of entry.

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Interlogica

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Our field of expertise in cutting-edge technology, modern languages and contemporary methodologies allow us to try out solutions that will develop a new future. One of our missions is to revolutionize the software industry with digital engineering excellence in areas where none exist yet. We are passionate professionals: we love our business and we transmit our knowledge through professional services and by creating products that adapt as we go.

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Apache ServiceMix

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Apache ServiceMix is a flexible, open-source integration container that unifies the features and functionality of Apache ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, and Karaf into a powerful runtime platform you can use to build your own integrations solutions. It provides a complete, enterprise ready ESB exclusively powered by OSGi.

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An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) platform to seamlessly connect applications and data using SOA Architecture. Kovair Omnibus enables you to connect 80+ applications to create a unified, and highly productive development environment.