Federated ESB

More Enterprises Are Deploying a Federated ESB

As more organizations move toward the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise service busses (ESBs) are proliferating in enterprise IT environments. Multiple ESBs are inevitable—services live in different domains or geographies, mergers and acquisitions produce heterogeneous IT systems, and different applications have different performance profiles or technical integration requirements. The result is a federated ESB—a number of ESBs and other SOA infrastructure working together to ease and control service usage across the enterprise. Managing a federated ESB requires a solution that enables multiple ESBs to work together transparently and seamlessly, and to provide access to and management of services across multiple domains. When enterprises around the world want to deploy the leading enterprise architecture for managing a federated ESB, they choose Progress Software.

Artix Enables the Management of a Federated ESB

Artix (formerly from IONA Technologies) supports true federation of different service bus implementations allowing messages to traverse multiple busses. Artix has, from the start, been designed to support a widely distributed collection of services that are federated and dynamic. The enabling technologies in Artix include support for SOA metadata repositories such as UDDI, the adaptive runtime technology (ART) core, and the Artix Locator. Graphical and command-line tooling is used to simplify the construction, deployment and management of federated ESB services. Once a service instance is properly configured and ready to accept requests it will publish its location, in the form of an endpoint URL, to the Artix Locator.

Artix Locator Acts as a Repository for a Federated ESB

The Artix locator service is a standalone service that holds a repository of active service endpoints in an organization's service network. The Artix locator service functionality is implemented as a number of Artix plug-ins. Developers do not have to write any code to use this functionality, simplifying the management of a federated ESB. Since the locator service is described by a WSDL contract, enterprises can also choose to use the locator functionality directly within their applications. Artix's architecture allows for unlimited scalability from a deployment perspective as each endpoint operates independent of all others, yet communicates as a unified solution. Load balancing and failover capabilities can be encapsulated within an endpoint or across multiple locations/endpoints.

In addition to providing the enterprise service bus that best fits your SOA infrastructure, Progress Software also offers products and solutions for CORBA integration, an integration platform, alternatives to middleware, a SWIFT parser, JBI, runtime governance, semantic data integration, algorithmic trading and more.