Collaboration amongst open source integration initiatives
Martin LaMonica over at CNET reports on the planned co-operation between three open source projects focussed on the integration space: ServiceMix, ObjectWeb Consortium’s Celtix and WSO2’s Synapse. Both ServiceMix and Celtix are based on the JBI (Java Business Integration) specification with the objective of providing open source alternatives to ESB products from the likes of Cape Clear, Polarlake and Sonic. Synapse, meanwhile, plans to develop web services mediation technology to provide message routing, transformation capabilities that are complementary to ServiceMix and Celtix.The planned partnership should certainly increase the pressure on commercial alternatives from the likes of BEA, IBM, Oracle, SAP as well as the ESB specialists and provide potential customers with a more cohesive open source alternative. It also poses a few questions for Sonic, one of the initial backers of Synapse, which now faces the prospect of supporting, at least indirectly, open source alternatives to the ESB concept it claims to have created. The same could be said of Iona, which is also backing Synapse, but it initiated Celtix and so (hopefully for Iona shareholders) already has its strategy ironed out. It will be interesting to see whether Sun, which announced the open source, JBI-based Java ESB at JavaOne earlier this year decides to participate.
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