Ireland-based PolarLake has released PolarLake
JIntegrator, which the company describes as the first universal
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
The product handles the exchange of XML documents and Soap
messages and enables the extension of Java and J2EE-based XML and
web services systems.
Expanding multiple message-oriented middleware products,
JIntegrator integrates with existing infrastructure such as IBM.
MQseries, Tibco, Hewlett-Packard OpenView, Oracle databases, and
IBM WebSphere and BEA Systems WebLogic application servers.
"Our view is that the ESB is a product that provides the
integration layer that handles the exchange of XML documents [and]
Soap messages between applications," said PolarLake chief executive
officer Ronan Bradley.
"Typically, this is happening inside the firewall and the
applications are existing, deployed systems," he said.
These exchanges occur at two levels: business process
integration and technology integration, according to Bradley.
"We see the ESB as a lightweight and flexible approach to
integration, using existing technology and capable of being used
from a departmental level all the way up to the enterprise level,"
he said.
"The ESB is being used as an alternative to hand-writing
integration frameworks on application servers and as an alternative
to high-cost EAI products."
JIntegrator features a runtime server and tool set. PolarLake's
product is an alternative to expensive, in-house development of an
ESB system.
"What we have found is that enterprises which have attempted to
use XML or web services for application integration problems have
ended up spending sometimes millions of dollars writing their own
ESB frameworks," Bradley said.
"This is a hard problem, and often the frameworks created are
too slow, don't scale, and are simply too complex to maintain and
extend. Chief information officers recognise that this is not a
business they want to be in and want to use a product to replace
their own framework," he added.
PolarLake also plans to release the PolarLake Messaging
Integrator, which is intended to provide sophisticated document
transformation capabilities for complex integration projects.
The company will also release the latest version of PolarLake
Database Integrator, for integrating relational database
applications into an XML or web services system. The product
supports bi-directional mapping between existing relational data
and stored procedures and XML.
Paul Krill writes for IDG News Service