Infonatural Enterprise Service Bus / News: Recent posts

A mailing list for the Infonatural ESB has been created at:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/esb-devel

I have had some severe problems trying to set-up and above all subscribe to the mailing lists for this project (mail delivery failed everytime), thus I have given up on it completely and removed the mailing lists.

However, I do wish to have some mailing lists for the project, so if someone has some good ideas of other providers that actually work, please drop me a line at wille.faler(at)infonatural.com

Version 0.5 is now available, a major reworking of the API has been done, but from now on the API and features should start to stabilize with coming releases.

Some of the major new features with this release:
* POJO's can be deployed as Services, no API dependencies for creating a Service.
* Services are self-describing in WSDL. WSDL is dynamically generated for deployed Services (you can still provide your own WSDL).
* SOAP over HTTP/S is available, Services are dynamically available over this.
* Protocol for calling individual Services (EJB/JMS/SOAP) is made transparent by the ESB: you can define preferred protocols on a Service-basis via the ServiceContainer.
* API for calling ESB services now more closely mirrors the API of Apache AXIS Call SOAP-calls. This API should now be stable with 98% certainty.... read more

Our second Beta, version 0.3 has now been released.
It is bundled and configured with ActiveMQ 3.0 for easy set-up, this is merely a configured dependency for convenience of development and testing.
You should be able to use any other JMS-compliant broker if you follow the steps set out in the README.txt of this release.

For a complete low-down of the changes, please refer to the README.txt, some featured changes however are:
CHANGES
* Introduction of esb-jms-standalone project for standalone development, testing and running
* Better test-coverage, made code more robust
* Removed client and endpoint test-packages
* Replaced J2EE test-app with standalone test-app for ease-of-use when testing the functionality (J2EE package remains and is still actively developed, this is merely a change for the test-application)
* Generally made the ESB functionality easier to use and more productive to develop ESB solutions... read more

The first Beta-release of the Infonatural ESB is now available, it is called version 0.2. Even though the version number is quite low, we are starting to get all the functionality in now that we want for the first 1.0 release.
These functions are still missing that are planned:
* Itinerary based routing
* Pluggable message serialization

Other than that, these tasks are outstanding for release 1.0:
* Clean-up the build-system
* Review the Exception-model and fix where appropriate
* Better unit-test coverage
* Full API- and code-review.
* Load-testing... read more

We now have our first functioning sample-code, a functioning end-to-end J2EE sample application using JMS with (probably) the right classloader isolation worked out.
Still need to prove that it works in separate EAR:s and separate containers, but it works as one EAR, and I have no reason to believe it wouldnt otherwise.
Still lots to do, clean-up round of xml-files, configs, build.xml:s, j2ee-code etc.... read more

I have now released code into CVS, the modules are:
* ant: project global ant-files
* esb-core: core ESB framework, this is the only code that is somewhat mature so far.

* esb-j2ee: j2ee/jms implementations on top of the esb-core, this code is very immature and half-baked at the moment, There are still some problems around Session EJB deployment etc, so don't expect it to work. Heavy refactoring and reworking is expected.
* esb-sampleclient: sample client for a sample application scenario, very rudimentary standalone client.
* esb-sample-endpoint: sample endpoint, very rudimentary, basically only changes a greeting in a message.... read more

This is the projects first file-release, it is a pre-alpha release of the core-API of what we hope to become a very solid Enterprise Service Bus integration framework/integration backbone.
A PDF-document outlining basic concepts is also available from the downloads section.
Enjoy!