Spoilt for Choice Which Integration Framework to choose?

Integration

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Mule ESB

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Kai Whner
Main Tasks
Evaluation of Technologies and Products
Requirements Engineering
Enterprise Architecture Management
Business Process Management
Architecture and Development of Applications
Planning and Introduction of SOA
Integration of Legacy Applications
Cloud Computing

Consulting
Developing
Speaking
Coaching
Writing
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What is the Key Message?

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Key Messages

Do not reinvent the integration wheel!

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Key Messages

Do not reinvent the integration wheel!

There are some good alternatives for Integration!

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Key Messages

Do not reinvent the integration wheel!

There are some good alternatives for Integration!
Often an ESB is the wrong Choice!
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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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What is the Problem?

Growth
Applications
Interfaces
Technologies
Products

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Heterogeneity

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Spaghetti Solutions

Everybody communicates to everybody

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Solution: Systems Integration

All Roads
lead to Rome ...
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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

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Complexity
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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Enterprise Service Bus

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Low

High

Complexity
of Integration

Spring Integration vs. Mule ESB vs. Apache Camel

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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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Wishes

Standardized Modeling
Efficient Realization
Automatic Testing
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Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)

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Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)

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Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)

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Relation between EIPs and Integrations Frameworks

Integration

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Mule ESB

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implement

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Comparison Criteria

Open source
Basic concepts / architecture
Testability
Commercial support
Error handling
Monitoring
Enterprise readiness
Developer-centric vs. designer-centric
Expandability
Deployment
Popularity
Tool support
Connectivity
Domain specific language (DSL)

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Similarities

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Connectivity

Integration
of different
Technologies

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Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a

programming language or specification language
dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular
problem representation technique, and / or a particular
solution technique.
Wikipedia

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Architecture

http://java.dzone.com/articles/apache-camel-integration

(Exemplarily: Apache Camel => Concepts are all the same, only different names)

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Deployment

Standalone

Application Server

Web Container
Spring Container
OSGi
Cloud

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Enterprise-Ready

Maturity
Transactions
Concurrency
Error handling
Monitoring
Testability
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Licensing

Integration

Apache License

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Mule ESB

Common Public
Atttribution License
(CPAL)

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Apache License

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Commercial Support

Integration

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Tool Support
Integration Graph for Spring Integration

Fuse IDE for Apache Camel

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Mule Studio for Mule ESB

Talend Studio for Apache Camel

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Upcoming Procedure

Concepts of each Framework

Code Example
Live Demo

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Comparison Criteria

Open source
Basic concepts / architecture
Testability
Commercial support
Error handling
Monitoring
Enterprise readiness
Developer-centric vs. designer-centric
Expandability
Deployment
Popularity
Tool support
Connectivity
Domain specific language (DSL)

Focus

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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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Connectivity
AMQP
Feed
File
FTP(S)
GemFire
HTTP
TCP
UDP
JDBC
JMS
Mail
MongoDB
Redis
RMI
SFTP
Stream
Twitter
Web Service
XML
XMPP

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How to create own custom adapter?

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DSLs

XML
(Not production-ready yet)

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Code Example

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Code Example

http://blog.springsource.org/2012/03/05/introducing-spring-integration-scala-dsl/

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Live Demo

Spring Integration in Action

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Integration Graph

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Integration Graph

Pro
Visual Designer for Spring Integration flows
Vice versa Editing (code generation vs. coding by hand)
Open Source (part of Spring IDE at github)
Simple Eclipse plugin Just Spring Integration
Export of flow diagrams

Contra
Non-intuitive usability
Unclear diagrams
Immature (e.g. missing documentation, problems with code examples)

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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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Mule ESB

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Standalone / Web Application Deployment

http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/display/MULE3USER/Embedding+Mule+in+a+Java+Application+or+Webapp
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Connectivity
AS400 Data Queue
Abdera
Amazon SQS
jBPM
CICS CTG
CXF
Email
FTP
Hibernate
HTTP/S
Legs4Mule
IMAP/S
Servlet
SFTP
SMTP/S
SOAP
STDIO
TCP
UDP
VM
XMPP
WebSphere MQ
WSDL
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Atom
Base64 encoded
Byte arrays
CSV
Encrypted

GZIP
Hex Strings
HTML/ XHTML
Java Objects

Amazon S3
Authorize.net
Apple Push
Bit.ly
CMIS

CyberSource
Facebook
Flickr
HBase
Magento

JCR
JDBC
Jersey
Jetty
JMS
LDAP
Multicast
POP3/S
Quartz
Restlet
RMI
SAP

JSON
EDI
COBOL Copybook
XML

Many more Connectors +

easy to create own Connectors
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Connectivity

Several Proprietary Connectors available, for instance:

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OSGi Support?

OSGi adds another complexity to building

applications. [...] OSGi is a great specification for
middleware vendors, but a terrible specification for
the end user.
Ross Mason, MuleSoft, November 2010

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DSLs

XML

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Code Example

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Live Demo

Mule in Action
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Mule Studio

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Mule Studio

Pro
Visual Designer for Mule Flows
Visual Live Monitoring
Vice versa Editing (Code generation vs. coding by hand)
Simple Eclipse plugin Just Mule
Intuitive GUI

Contra
Proprietary
Subscription required for many enterprise features (such as monitoring)

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Agenda

1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
6) And the Winner is ...

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DSLs

XML

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Connectivity

SQL

TCP

Netty

RMI
FTP

Twitter

CXF

Lucene

HTTP

MongoDB
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Jetty

JDBC
MQ

AMQP

RSS
Atom

AWS

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SMTP

Bean-Validation

JMX

File

XSLT

LDAP

IRC

JMS
EJB

Quartz

jclouds

Akka
Many more Components +
easy to create own Components
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Code Example

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Code Example

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Live Demo

Apache Camel in Action

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Tool Support

Fuse IDE
vs.

Talend Open Studio for ESB

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Fuse IDE

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Fuse IDE

Pro
Visual Designer for Camel routes
Visual Live Monitoring (for debugging, browsing, tracing)
Vice versa Editing (code generation vs. coding by-hand)
Just a simple Eclipse-Plugin Just Camel
Intuitive GUI
Export of route diagrams
JUnit Test Wizard (generates scaffolding for tests)

Contra
Proprietary
Subscription required
Only XML DSL (this is not really a contra, because only Camel offers other DSLs)

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Talend Open Studio for ESB

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Talend Open Studio for ESB

Pro
Visual Designer for Camel routes
Visual Live Monitoring
Open Source (at github)
Community Edition (not all features)
Zero Coding

Contra
Zero Coding
Only Java DSL (plus a lot of boilerplate code)
No vice versa code editing (only code generation)
No intuitive user interface
=> no simple Eclipse plugin
=> based on Eclipse, but it is more an own product (1GB)
=> full ESB only

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1) Systems Integration
2) Integration Frameworks
3) Spring Integration
4) Mule ESB
5) Apache Camel
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And the Winner is ...

Integration
Mule ESB

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When to use?

Integration
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When to use?

Spring Project
Typical JVM Technologies
No additional Framework

Integration
Mule ESB

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When to use?

Integration
One of the available
proprietary Connectors
is required

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Mule ESB

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When to use?

Integration
Mule ESB
In all other Cases

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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

Enterprise Service Bus

(ESB)

High

Complexity
of Integration

Integration
Connectivity
Routing
Transformation
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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

High

Integration
Connectivity
Routing
Transformation
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Enterprise Service Bus

(ESB)

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Complexity
of Integration

Spring Integration
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Mule ESB
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Apache Camel
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Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

Enterprise Service Bus

(ESB)

High

Complexity
of Integration

Middleware Product
Integration
Connectivity
Routing
Transformation
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Integration
Business Process Management
Business Activity Monitoring
Registry / Repository
Rules Engine
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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

Enterprise Service Bus

(ESB)

High

Complexity
of Integration

Middleware Product
Integration
Connectivity
Routing
Transformation
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Business Process Management
Business Activity Monitoring
Registry / Repository
Rules Engine
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Alternatives for Systems Integration

Integration
Framework

No Tool

Low

High

Apache ServiceMix,
Mule ESB, WSO2 ESB
vs.
IBM Message Broker,
IBM ESB, Oracle ESB,
webMethods ESB
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Enterprise Service Bus

(ESB)

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Complexity
of Integration

Middleware Product
Integration
Business Process Management
Business Activity Monitoring
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Rules Engine
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Key Messages

Do not reinvent the integration wheel!

There are some good alternatives for Integration!
Often an ESB is the wrong Choice!
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Did you get the Key Messages?

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Become a Part of the Open Source Community

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Thank you for your Attention. Any Questions?

Integration

or Mule ESB or

Kai Whner
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Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @KaiWaehner
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