What is relation of an ESB like ServiceMix with an application server ?

[Legolas Woodland <le...@gmail.com>]

Hi
Thank you for reading my post
what is relation of an ESB with an Application server ?
how this two compare ?
how this two co-exist or help each other to drive an enterprise ?

Thanks

Re: What is relation of an ESB like ServiceMix with an application server ?

[Bruce Snyder <br...@gmail.com>]

On 5/22/06, Legolas Woodland <le...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Thank you for reading my post
> what is relation of an ESB with an Application server ?
> how this two compare ?
> how this two co-exist or help each other to drive an enterprise ?

ServiceMix can operate in two modes:

1) Standalone
2) With an app server

ServiceMix is a container based on the Java Business Integration spec
that provides a lightweight development environment for event-driven
applications and/or service oriented applications whose purpose is to
integrate with different protocols and transports. ServiceMix offers
transactionality via Jencks (http://jencks.org/) and remoting via
Lingo (http://lingo.codehaus.org/) and it all sits on top of the XBean
kernel (http://xbean.org/) (which sits on top of Spring
(http://springframework.org/).

ServiceMix provides the same environment no matter whether it's
running standalone or with a Java application server. Some
environments don't need J2EE/Java EE and others do so ServiceMix
offers support for both. The two approaches can certainly coexist, but
when using ServiceMix (or it's big brother LogicBlaze FUSE
(http://www.logicblaze.com/fuse_features.jsp)) there's little need to
use a full app server unless you're doing EJBs or some app
server-specific functionality.

Bruce
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Apache Geronimo - http://geronimo.apache.org/
Apache ActiveMQ - http://incubator.apache.org/activemq/
Apache ServiceMix - http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/
Castor - http://castor.org/