BEA Systems has introduced BEA AquaLogic Service Bus
3.0, a comprehensive enterprise service bus (ESB) that is designed
to improve the integration process for enterprise-wideSOA deployments.
The system is an
SOA (service oriented architecture) integration platform
designed to connect, mediate and manage interactions between
heterogeneous services, legacy applications and multiple ESB
instances across an enterprise-wide service network.
"The same factors that lead a large company to acquire
heterogeneous applications also cause them to organise SOA
initiatives into different domains - a typical epicentre being a
business unit, said Jess Thompson, an analyst at Gartner.
"Initially, more than 90% of SOA interactions are confined
within a single SOA domain. However, as organisations develop a
robust service portfolio, the proportion of inter-domain
interactions increases as services are used in composite
applications developed in other business units, and to automate
business processes that span organisational boundaries," said
Thompson.
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 is designed to be a comprehensive,
light-weight SOA backbone to help IT organisations create
configuration-driven and reusable service components, service
enable legacy applications, and quickly build new SOA-based
applications for enabling enterprise agility, said BEA.
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0 will be available in the first
quarter next year.