Java Business Integration (JBI) is a specification developed under the
Java Community Process
The Java Community Process (JCP), established in 1998, is a formalized mechanism that allows interested parties to develop standard technical specifications for Java technology. Anyone can become a JCP Member by filling a form available at thJCP w ...
(JCP) for an approach to implementing a
service-oriented architecture
In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. By consequence, it is also applied in the field of software design where services are provide ...
(SOA). The JCP reference is JSR 208 for JBI 1.0 and JSR 312 for JBI 2.0. JSR 312 was removed from the JCP balloting process on 17 Dec, 2010 by the submitters without being accepted.
JBI is built on a
Web Services model and provides a pluggable architecture for a container that hosts service producer and consumer components. Services connect to the container via binding components (BC) or can be hosted inside the container as part of a service engine (SE). The services model used is
Web Services Description Language 2.0. The central message delivery mechanism, the normalized message router (NMR), delivers normalized messages via one of four
Message Exchange Pattern
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s (MEPs), taken from WSDL 2.0:
# In-Only: A standard one-way messaging exchange where the consumer sends a message to the provider that provides only a status response.
# Robust In-Only: This pattern is for reliable one-way message exchanges. The consumer initiates with a message to which the provider responds with status. If the response is a status, the exchange is complete, but if the response is a fault, the consumer must respond with a status.
# In-Out: A standard two-way message exchange where the consumer initiates with a message, the provider responds with a message or fault and the consumer responds with a status.
# In Optional-Out: A standard two-way message exchange where the provider's response is optional.
To handle functionality that deals with installation, deployment, monitoring and lifecycle concerns amongst BCs and SEs,
Java Management Extensions
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(JMX) is used. JBI defines standardized packaging for BCs and SEs, allowing components to be portable to any JBI implementation without modification.
JBI defines standard packaging for composite applications: applications that are composed of service consumers and providers. Individual service units are deployable to components; groups of service units are gathered together into a service assembly. The service assembly includes metadata for "wiring" the service units together (associating service providers and consumers), as well as wiring service units to external services. This provides a simple mechanism for performing composite application assembly using services.
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JBI implementations
The following open-source software
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JBI based ESB implementations are available:
* Open ESB
''OpenESB'' is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows developers to integrate legacy systems, external and intern ...
* Petals ESB
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* Apache ServiceMix
Apache ServiceMix is an open-source software project to implement a distributed enterprise service bus (ESB).
Architecture
ServiceMix is based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model. It is a project of the Apache Software Foundation ...
* FUSE ESB
Red Hat Fuse is an open source integration platform based on Apache Camel. It is a distributed integration platform that provides a standardized methodology, infrastructure, and tools to integrate services, microservices, and application compo ...
(enterprise ServiceMix) - compliant JSR 208
* Mule. Though not a JBI compliant container by itself, Mule provides interoperability with JBI containers. There is a separate Mule-JBI project that is to address this JBI compliance issue.
The following ESBs are certified by the JBI/JSR 208 TCK: Open ESB
''OpenESB'' is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows developers to integrate legacy systems, external and intern ...
and Petals ESB
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.
In addition, the Project GlassFish
GlassFish is an open-source Jakarta EE platform application server project started by Sun Microsystems, then sponsored by Oracle Corporation, and now living at the Eclipse Foundation and supported by Payara, Oracle and Red Hat. The supported v ...
open-source Java EE application server comes with the JBI runtime from the Open ESB
''OpenESB'' is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows developers to integrate legacy systems, external and intern ...
project.
Java EE
Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web ser ...
SDK also includes the JBI runtime and a BPEL
The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), commonly known as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), is an OASIS standard executable language for specifying actions within business processes with web services. Process ...
orchestration engine.
Oracle claims its Fusion Middleware comes with JBI implementation.
TIBCO
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It has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and offices in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South A ...
ActiveMatrix Service Grid provides a service container framework, based on the JSR 208 and SCA specifications (Service Component Architecture
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a software technology designed to provide a model for applications that follow service-oriented architecture principles. The technology, created by major software vendors, including IBM, Oracle Corporatio ...
), allowing service containers (Java, Java EE, .net, BPEL) to be added as needed, as composite applications on a common foundation.
Existing JBI Components
Open JBI Components project on java.net is an incubator project started to foster community-based development of JBI components that conform to the Java Business Integration specification (JSR 208).
Books
*Binildas A. Christudas, "Service-Oriented Java Business Integration" (Packt Publishing: Feb 2008, ; ), http://www.packtpub.com/service-oriented-java-business-integration
See also
*Enterprise Service Bus
An enterprise service bus (ESB) implements a communication system between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It represents a software architecture for distributed computing, and is a special varia ...
solutions offered by several Java platform
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vendors.
*Service Component Architecture
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a software technology designed to provide a model for applications that follow service-oriented architecture principles. The technology, created by major software vendors, including IBM, Oracle Corporatio ...
(SCA)
References
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External links
JSR 208 specification on the JCP siteJSR 312 page on the JCP siteOpen SOA article on JBI's relationship to SCAJava Business Integration Specification.
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Service-oriented architecture-related products