Open Source ESBs
Product Name Celtix Mule Apache ServiceMix Project Open ESB JBoss ESB
Community/Sponsor ObjectWeb/Iona MuleSource Apache Foundation Sun Microsystems Inc. Red Hat (JBoss)
History Iona Technologies sponsored the project and seeded it with technology from its Artix ESB. Celtix supports multiple containers (J2EE, servlet, and standalone), as well as ActiveMQ Java Message Service (JMS). Intended as a lightweight messaging framework. A J2EE 1.4 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Messaging broker; features pluggable connectivity with JMS and JBI integration. Initially sponsored by SymphonySoft (now operating as Ricston), now startup MuleSource is supporting Mule. Built from the ground up on the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache license. LogicBlaze seeded the project, and built the Fuse SOA platform on ServiceMix. Launched as an ASF incubation project Dec. 2005. Based on JBI specification JSR-208. The JBI engine and a few components from the OpenESB project are included in the Java EE 5 SDK which was launched at JavaOne this year and the associated tooling was released as beta as part of NetBeans 5.5 and the Enterprise Pack also at JavaOne. In October 2005, JBoss announced its SOA strategy and positioned the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) as the Open Source Platform for SOA. Its roadmap includes expanding JEMS to include an ESB.
Initial Launch May, 2006 December, 2004 August, 2005 Early access May 2006 Beta release August, 2006