This document provides an overview of enterprise service buses (ESBs) and recommends WSO2 ESB as a solution. It defines an ESB and why organizations use them. Key sections explain how to select an ESB and whether an organization needs one. The document also outlines the core functionalities of ESBs in general and highlights features of WSO2 ESB like protocol support, transformations, and extensibility through the Carbon platform. It positions WSO2 ESB as a lightweight, open source solution that provides the full capabilities of an ESB.

1. A Buyers Guide to an Enterprise Service Bus
Kasun Indrasiri
Associate Technical Lead
WSO2 Inc.

2. Overview
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - What and Why?
• Selecting an ESB
• Do you really need an ESB?
• Core Functionalities of an ESB
• Why WSO2 ESB?
• Features of WSO2 ESB
• Conclusion

3. ESB - What?
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a software architecture for middleware
that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures.
• An ESB acts as a shared messaging layer for connecting applications
and other services throughout an enterprise computing infrastructure.
• It supplements its core asynchronous messaging backbone with
intelligent transformation and routing to ensure messages are passed
reliably.
(source:Gartner)

4. ESB - Why?
• Why ESB?
• Service Mediation
• Transformations
• Routing
• Validations
• Event Management
• Interactions
• QoS – Security, Reliability, Throttling
• Service Hosting
• Service Orchestration

5. Selecting an ESB
• It’s challenging!
• Number of Complex ESB products
• Discrete features and capabilities.
• The architecture requirements for SOA and ESB rapidly
vary.
• There are no standards, that define ESB capabilities.

6. Do you really need an ESB?
• Integrating more than a few application and more new
applications will be introduced to the system.
• Mediate Messages based on various business requirements
• Supporting various protocols and standards
• Virtualization of different services offered by diverse applications
• Various QoS requirements

7. Core Functionalities of an ESB
• Support of multiple protocols and Protocol conversion
• Data transformation and data-based routing
• Support of multiple standards
• Integrated security features
• Comprehensive error handling mechanisms
• Support of both synchronous and asynchronous service
invocations
• Highly available and scalable infrastructure
• Extensibility
• Support of composite services through lightweight orchestration
• Enterprise Integration Pattern support

8. Extended Features
• Graphical editing tools
• SLA monitoring and management
• BPEL and other business process support
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
• Dynamic service provisioning
• Complex Event Processing (CEP)
• Other SOA related aspects

9. Why WSO2 ESB?
• Lightweight
• Supports all the core functionalities of an ESB
• A part of a complete SOA platform
• 100% Free and Open Source under Apache License 2
• Comprehensive support from the developers who built the
product
• Go Cloud Native

10. Wide Range of EIP support
• Splitter
• Aggregator
• Translator
• Content Enricher

11. Wide Range of EIP support
• Wire Tap
• Content Based Router
• Message Filter
• Message Store

12. Wide Range of EIP support
• Recipient List
• Message Router

13. Advance Features
• Store and Forward
• Message Stores
• Message Processors
• Configuration reuse
• Sequence Templates
• Endpoint Templates

14. Protocols and Conversions
• Various Protocols and Conversions
• Transports
• HTTP/S, POP/IMAP, SMTP, JMS, AMQP, FIX, Raw TCP, Raw UDP,
SAP, File transports (FTP/SFTP/CIFS), SAP IDOC/BAPI
• Content interchange formats
• SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, POX, HTML, Plain text, binary, JSON, Hessian
• REST API for all RESTful invocations
• A new feature that will be available in the upcoming release.

15. Standards and Business Adapter
• Various Standards and Business Adapters
• WS-* standards
• WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Policy,
WS-Discovery, MTOM/SwA
• Business Adapters
• SAP Adapter (BAPI and IDOC)
• FIX
• HL7

16. Message Transformations and QoS
• Transformations
• xslt,xquery,smooks
• QoS
• Security Features
• 16 security scenarios
• XACML, SAML 2.0, WS-Security and many more with WSO2-IS
features
• Reliable Messaging
• Throttling

17. Ease of Use
• Download-> Unzip -> Start
• Web Console
• Easy configuration through an intuitive graphical interface allows you to
get started
• Number of samples that you can try out.
• http://wso2.org/project/esb/java/4.0.2/docs/samples_index.htm

18. Extensibility – WSO2 Carbon
• WSO2 Product = Carbon Core + features

19. Extensibility – WSO2 Carbon
• Feature Management with WSO2

20. Extensibility – WSO2 Carbon
• Implement your own
• Custom Mediators, Scheduled Tasks, Message Stores and Message
Processors
• Xpath Extensions
• Message Builders and Formatters to support proprietary
protocols

21. HA, Clustering and Governance Aspects
• Clustering based on WSO2 Governance Registry
• Deployment Synchronizer
• Carbon Applications (cApp)
• Life Cycle Management

22. Extended Features
• Tooling with Carbon Studio
• BPS
• BAM
• CEP

23. WSO2 SOA Platform
• Not just an ESB, but a SOA Platform

24. WSO2 SOA Platform
• Don’t change your architecture to match the middleware

25. Proven Case Studies
• Case Study : High Volume
• 1 Billon Transactions per Day
• 94 Million Active Users around the World
• $2000 worth of Transactions per Second
• 24×7 Shopping, Trading, Checkout, Mobile Applications
Case study:
http://wso2.com/casestudies/ebay-uses-100-open-source-wso2-esb-to-process-more-than-1-billion-transactions-per-day/

26. Cloud Native
• PaaS

27. Cloud Native
• Stratos Live

28. WSO2 Carbon and Stratos

29. Conclusion
• Time
• Fit
• Support

30. Q&A

31. Selected Customers

32. WSO2 engagement model
• QuickStart
• Development
Support
• Development
Services
• Production
Support
• Turnkey Solutions
• WSO2 Mobile Services Solution
• WSO2 FIX Gateway Solution
• WSO2 SAP Gateway Solution

33. Thank You.