Integration of applications within a business and between different businesses is becoming more and more important. The needs for up-to-date information that is accessible from almost everywhere, and developing e-business solutions—particularly busi
Mule is a widely used open source enterprise service bus. It is standards based, provides easy integration with Spring and JBoss, and fully supports the enterprise messaging patterns collected by Hohpe and Woolf. You can readily customize Mule witho
A few years ago, I wrote a book with a colleague about open source ESBs (Enterprise Service Buses), Open Source ESBs in Action (Manning, 2008). In that book we wrote about using open source tools to integrate applications and expose legacy systems a
The Apache ActiveMQ message broker is an open source implementation of the Java Message Service spec. It makes for a reliable hub in any message-oriented enterprise application and integrates beautifully with Java EE containers, ESBs, and other JMS
Redis is frequently compared to the likes of memcached and referred to as a "key value" store. This doesn't do it justice. The various data structures, it's atomic operations and pub/sub make this a viable replacement for queues, ESBs, caches and ev
Writing this book was a life-changer for me. After I wrote Open Source ESBs in Action for Manning a few years ago, I focused on my daily job for some time, working with open source enterprise integration frameworks like Mule, Camel, ServiceMix, and
