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CHAMPAIGN, IL-- Open Integration Incorporated (OpenII) today
announced the availability of the OpenII Toolkit Enterprise Service Bus
(ESB) Release 3.0 and the OpenII Toolkit Enterprise Service Core (ESC)
Release 3.0. These products are the next evolution of the OpenII Toolkit
for OpenEAI, which is a set of core integration services (ESC) and a
web-based administration console for implementing Service Oriented
Architectures (SOA). These services may run alone as an ESB or run on top
of an organization's existing ESB infrastructure and middleware to enhance
its integration orchestration, administration, and auditing capabilities.
The new and updated features of Release 3.0 of the OpenII Toolkit for
OpenEAI include:
ESC enhancements:
- The Transformation Service allows the transformation of both
synchronization and request messages from one message definition
to another.
- Further enhancements to the OpenII implementations of the Routing,
Proxy, and Logging Services. Several key enhancements are listed
below:
- The Proxy Service now allows a request timeout interval to be
set by target which allows more flexible control especially for
larger messages.
- Proxy Rule implementations now inherit initialized components
from the Proxy Service. This provides a more streamlined
configuration for the service as well as the proxy rules which
are more complex rules used to determine if a requesting
application is allowed to perform a specific action on a given
business object at a given target.
- The Routing Service now records the target application ID in
addition to the ID associated with the message being routed which
provides a more robust mechanism for determining to which
applications a message was successfully routed.
- Routing Criteria implementations now inherit initialized
components from the Routing Service. This provides a more
streamlined configuration for the service as well as for the
routing criteria implementations which are more complex criteria
that may be used to determine if a message should be routed to a
given target.
- The Logging Service now records more information about the
application that published a message when a sync consuming
application encounters errors while processing that message.
The additional information recorded includes the category, object
name, and release associated with the business object.
ESB enhancements:
- Enhancements to the GUI Administration Console now include the
ability to:
- Import application configurations and other runtime artifacts
vastly improving the efficiency and accuracy of connector
deployments,
- Store and globally apply default configuration parameters used
by most applications which provides additional configuration
management efficiency,
- Copy and look up specific components and values from other existing
applications known by the console to increase efficiency and
consistency,
- Export an application's XML configuration and make changes to the
"raw" XML so those changes can be saved back to the configuration
for the application,
- Search and replace configuration parameter values in one or
all applications,
- Specify individual runtime (JVM) environment options per
application,
- Authenticate against multiple branches in a directory, and
- Search multiple branches in a directory when registering a new
user.
- Application configuration descriptors are now stored in a database
which provides another level of deployment flexibility and allows
multiple instances of the ESB to access centralized application
configurations.
- Configuration revision history is now maintained which allows
organizations the ability to see who made changes to a given
application's configuration over time.
- The OpenII implementation of the Automated Test Suite applications
now include the ability to run test suites in a standalone "sync
verification" mode which adds another automated way to confirm test
results.
- The OpenII General RDBMS Connector now leverages additional database
access methods such as stored procedures for database querying and
persistence.
More detailed information including screen shots of the ESB and ESC is
available on the OpenII web site at
http://www.openii.com/live/index.php?page=overview. Information on training
courses and a schedule for upcoming sessions at the University of Illinois
Research Park in Champaign, Illinois, is available at
http://www.openii.com/live/index.php?page=schedule_pub. On-site training
and custom training courses can also be arranged upon request.
About OpenII
OpenII was founded in 2002 with the assistance of the University of
Illinois to provide commercial implementations, services, and support for
OpenEAI technologies developed at the University. OpenII provides services
and software for organizations that practice standards-based enterprise
application integration and software vendors who wish to provide
standards-based interfaces to their products, specializing in the
methodology and technologies of OpenEAI, an open-source project for
standards-based EAI. OpenII is committed to contributing resources and
intellectual property to the OpenEAI project. OpenII donates resources to
the project and OpenII staff members are active participants in the OpenEAI
project.
To subscribe to future OpenII announcements and press releases go to
http://www.openii/live/?page=announcements.
About the OpenEAI Project
The purpose of the OpenEAI Project (http://www.OpenEAI.org) is to discover
and document the controlling dynamics, principles, and practices of
enterprise application integration and to present, implement, and promote
those findings. The OpenEAI Project presents findings in the form of the
OpenEAI methodology and OpenEAI software for implementing integrations. We
suggest you read the OpenEAI Overview
(http://www.openeai.org/live/?p=2&sub=1) for additional background on
enterprise application integration. The OpenEAI Project is comprised of six
distinct, but closely related departments, which address OpenEAI
Methodology, Application Foundation APIs, Message Object API, Message
Definitions, Reference Implementations, and Deployment and Administration.
About the University of Illinois
The University of Illinois (http://www.uillinois.edu) enrolls 66,000
students at its three campuses in Chicago, Springfield, and
Urbana-Champaign. It has an annual operating budget that tops $3 billion;
nearly 30 percent of that comes from gifts, grants, and contracts. The
University employs more than 20,000 faculty and staff and has more than a
half-million living alumni. The Urbana campus is a pioneer in high-speed
computing and houses the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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