What is the future of GlassFish ESB / Open ESB

Question

With the merger of SUN and Oracle: what is the future of Open ESB aka GlassFish ESB? Is this a product that will be discontinued because Oracle has an Oracle service bus (was the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus)?

Answer 1

Oracle is hard to predict.

OpenEJB is easier to predict because it is open source. Apparently, it is still active, so it can continue for another year. Who can see further?

The bigger question is: what will be the adoption rate of EJB3? Has the EJB Model Passed the World?

Personally, I no longer consider EJB important. I prefer Spring. While it is bright, I see no good reason to return to EJB.

I'm not sure about OpenESB because I generally doubt the ESB. I saw them as part of the BIG SOA sales strategy by the suppliers, which was great on promise and short delivery. An ESB can be either a centralized intermediary for your web services traffic, or one narrow point of failure, depending on your point of view. I think that many of the functionality that is usually centralized in the ESB (e.g. conversion, routing, logging, auditing, etc.) can be done better and faster in hardware - I think Data Power or more intelligent switches Cisco

Answer 2

not a marketing gimmick, but a white document that gives a real idea of ​​the future of OpenESB. This is the past, present and future. http://www.logicoy.com/userfiles/openesb-past_present_future_news_letter.pdf

Answer 3

According to Oracle, GlassfishESB / OpenESB will be supported (but I'm not sure if it indicates that it will be developed and supported). If you see an esb / openesb site with migrated glass fish, you will see that the product will not develop since 2009 (this is a mess because it is really an integration product). Perhaps forgerock.com (which supports some of Sun's well-known and interesting products, such as OpenSSO and OpenDs) may be interested in maintaining and developing this good integration product and continuing to develop fuji (GlassfishESB 3). At this time, you can compare the evolution of the product with another option (in ohloh net), and you will see that, unfortunately, the development of javaCAPS or OpenESB or GlassfishESB or fuji has not developed since 2009.

Oracle's strategy seems to be an evolution of the Soa Suite, which is a really good product but has different license terms.

See also related links:

• blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/openesb_new_beginnings
• openesb-users.794670.n2.nabble.com/News-update-on-OpenESB-and-Oracle-td4578158.html

NOTE: Oracle Service Bus (OSB) and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus were two different products, and the first was added to the soa package, which implements the SCA integration strategy.

Answer 4

This was a very important issue shared by all OpenESB / GlassfishESB clients. Although the exact course is still unclear. Oracle is heavily promoting its Oracle Fusion middleware, which is nowhere comparable to the flexibility and strengths of OpenESB / GlassfishESB.

Recently, the OpenESB community has become active again, and all credits to him are the noble work of Pimma, Logic and several others.

I personally liked OpenESB / GlassESB compared to other available ESBs.

Answer 5

Oracle has a long and outstanding purchase history for companies that have developed Java services, renamed this application server in the company as "Oracle AppServer", and quietly tear off the previous one. As a result, each major version of OAS is completely different from the previous one.

First, they wrote their own (it was shit, nobody used it), so they bought Orion and renamed OC4J to OAS. They then bought BEA and are currently turning Weblogic into OAS. Now they bought Sun, and Glassfish technology would be better off going ahead than Weblogic (which, IMO is a bit of a dinosaur), and therefore expect Glassfish to suddenly be renamed OAS at some point in the future.