BEA is no amateur in the race to make its systems best-in-class for performance and scalability. In this article I will describe some of the concerns around performance in ESBs and specifically how we address these with AquaLogic Service Bus.
Recently Oracle announced their Enterprise Service Bus offering at OpenWorld and I thought it timely to review their ESB and make some comparisons of my own: namely, that BEA's Enterprise Service Bus offering, AquaLogic Service Bus, definitely excels above Oracle in some key areas.
The xBus is a central EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) instance which has two substantial tasks: Routing and Transformation. The xBus is an Open Source software tool. Its architecture is very open and flexible. The reliability has been proven duri