For those of you who aren't familiar with ESB's, Microsoft does a pretty good job of describing one in their position paper. They basically say that an ESB consists of:
- Orchestration & Transformation
- Intelligent Routing and Mediation
The heart of the current code base was donated by Infravio. However, it was quickly noted:
Sonic Software itself an ESB vendor (as well as an initial committer to the Synapse project) said that Synapse wasn't a full blown ESB. "This project is related to ESB , but it is not in itself an ESB," Dave Chappell, Sonic Software's VP and Chief Technology Evangelist told internetnews.com,. "What Synapse bring to the table is a mediation framework that allows users to get in the middle between service requesters and providers and perform various tasks – including transformation and routing and that helps to promote loose coupling between services "
So, if I understand Dave correctly - Synapse has the routing and mediation but not the orchestration and transformation. Sounds like a problem! Perhaps I can help?
As of today - I am open sourcing our Orchestration IDE, BPEL engine and Transformation system.
But what good is an open source ESB if you can't get decent support? None! Sounds like a job for MomentumSI.
Done. Stay tuned. More to come.
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