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A One-Two Punch for SOA Integration
Bostech's ChainBuilder ESB's ETL Helps Companies Manage Services Using Message-Based and Database Integration
Mar. 24, 2008 02:15 PM
Bostech Corporation announced the availability of ETL
functionality within the latest release of its enterprise service bus,
ChainBuilder ESB 1.2. Designed to graphically incorporate database content into
a service-oriented architecture, the new ETL functionality advances the total
ChainBuilder ESB solution, enabling companies to more intelligently manage
databases and applications within a single solution.
Bostech created ChainBuilder ESB for architects, developers
and application analysts as an easy-to-use, standards-based platform that simplifies
the process of integrating data and applications. Many other vendors' ETL
implementations have concentrated on database-to-database integrations, so
complementing ChainBuilder ESB's traditional message-based functionality with
GUI-driven access to databases has moved ChainBuilder ESB ahead in terms of
integration flexibility. ChainBuilder ESB now provides straight-forward
integrations from any message data source to databases and vice-versa.
"Organizations are facing increasing complexity in their SOA
implementations, especially when incorporating existing applications,"
says David Bourke, CEO, Bostech Corporation. "Bostech's expertise in
solving thousands of business integration projects makes us uniquely suited to
help companies overcome the challenges of blending disparate applications as
they build out their SOA environment. With the addition of the ETL Data Source
Mapper and ETL Binding Component to the ChainBuilder ESB product suite,
architects have more integration flexibility, with alternative service and
application integration options available in one tool."
ChainBuilder ESB's message-based integrations combined with
new ETL functionality can influence the time-to-market of the entire
architecture. For example, school district software applications are primarily
database driven, yet the education industry's new Schools Interoperability
Framework (SIF) initiative is essentially message-based. The ChainBuilder ESB
solution assists school districts to easily perform these SIF
message-to-database or database-to-message transformations through table driven
drag-and-drop interfaces.
In addition to the new ETL functionality, Bostech recently
released the following improvements to ChainBuilder ESB:
- Updated Admin Console allows environments to be managed
anytime from anywhere with real-time status, alerting of the ESB activities,
and a graphic view of the bus through a web-based interface.
- Updated HTTP/S component with many enhancements including
the transmission of attachments, supporting MTOM and SOAP with Attachments
(SwA).
- Improved HTTP wizard with a "WSDL builder" to
create new WSDLs or leverage existing schemas, such that any dependent schema
files are automatically resolved and included in the project.
- Improved JMS Binding Component providing automatic retry
logic to recover from common faults caused by connectivity issues.
- New product support for Windows Vista.
"With its service-oriented architecture, ChainBuilder
ESB easily integrates with an existing infrastructure while supporting open
standards like Java Business Integration (JBI)," says Jeff Bardash, VP
Sales and Strategic Alliances, "Bostech remains a leader in the
development and distribution of superior integration technology that efficiently
connects an organization's legacy and current systems."
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