Hi JB, thanks for your reply and clarification :-) The ESB world is rather huge, that’s basically the reason why I'm asking of the efforts evaluating these technologies...
So, if I use servicemix as our integration layer, and I have to export our business objects to foreign systems like SAP Purchasing, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP BW and so on, or trigger external workflows like PO sign-off, I have to transform our business objects to a format servicemix is able to process. And I have to configure servicemix for the message routing to the correct external business application using ServiceMix HTTP or CXF BC? So, back to my first question: how much effort should I expect to get a usable integration layer for let's say one - very famous :) - use case, creating PO in SAP, up and running? Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Baptiste Onofré [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Donnerstag, 02. Juli 2009 17:42 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Integrating / evaluating servicemix Hi Chris, first of all, basicly, I think that the purpose of ServiceMix is not to be integrate in one application. The ESBs like ServiceMix are mostly made to integrate several applications (using different media channel) via a kind of backbone: the ESB. Nevertheless, ServiceMix can be a new module of your application, dedicated to the integration layer. In this case, you are responsible of exposing your business service into ServiceMix and the integration needs will be put into ServiceMix. In your case, if the SAP XI system provides a SOAP URI to you, you can use the ServiceMix HTTP or CXF BC to post and get message to/from SAP. I have made the same investigation as you. It was two years ago and I have benchmarked: - SMX - OpenESB - Mule Each have skills and issues. I have made the choice of ServiceMix and begin to contribute on it. So I think that you have my point of view on this topic :) Regards JB Chris Jölly wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have some questions regarding the efforts needed to integrate servicemix > > into an application and how much time is needed to get the first results > > when e.g. connecting servicemix via web services to an SOAP adapter of > > an SAP XI system. > > > > What I want to do is to evaluate some of this integration platforms and > > compare each other. Sure, this efforts depends on the skills of the > developers > > and the concrete use cases, but someone who uses servicemix could possible > > give a rough figure for this efforts which is sufficient for my needs by now. > J > > > > And, maybe someone has evaluated other tools like Swordfish or Mule and > > has figures for these platforms too? > > > > thanks, Chris > > > >
