AdroitLogic UltraESB v1.7.0 has been released!

AdroitLogic UltraESB v1.7.0 has been released!: Another major step of the best open source ESB , the version 1.7.0 has been released with a native AMQP transport, Protocol-Buffers based message mediation, AS2 and EDI enhancements and Many improvements to the Zabbix monitoring integration.

The v1.7.0 release is approximately ~37MB in size and includes over 70 samples, test utilities and documentation etc to get started quickly. The release can be downloaded from AdroitLogic downloads page. The complete release note explains all the changes.

UltraESB v1.6.2 released!

AdroitLogic Private Ltd. announced today the release v1.6.2 of its free and open source Enterprise Service Bus, the UltraESB. The UltraESB is released under the OSI approved GNU Affero General Public License; as well as a zero-dollar non-GPL commercial license which allows unlimited and perpetual production use free of charge. First released in January 2010, the UltraESB was the first ESB to utilize memory mapped files and zero-copy, coupled with non-blocking IO to provide extreme levels of performance.

Version v1.6.2 released today is mainly a maintenance release with many enhancements to the JMS transport, including fixing the ability to implement store-n-forward MEP with message re-delivery. The 1.6.0 release has been battle tested and hardened to become the 1.6.1 and then 1.6.2 with more stability. It also has few enhancements to the clustering support, REST support, file cache handling, enhanced logging and the server startup.

This minor release contains a much enhanced logging where all the error level logs have been re-visited to confirm whether they are actual errors from a users point of view. This enables users to setup alerting based on the error log statements using a third party log analyzing tools. The enhancements to the logs make sure that an error log is an actual error which requires a user attention and hence should result in an alert. Further on the startup if the server detects a compilation failure of any sequences or configuration errors the server will automatically be shutdown gracefully without accepting any messages, and the server state will be set to FAILED so that administrator can inspect improved logs regarding the error and fix those to start the server cleanly next time.

The ZooKeeper based clustering support has also been improved, where at a sudden forced shutdown will not affect the next start of the server, by acquiring the previous ZooKeeper session and terminating it properly to maintain the server session details properly, etc.. This release also contains a fix to the windows startup bat scripts for an issue with starting samples on the windows environment.

The v1.6.2 release is approximately ~35MB in size and includes over 70 samples, test utilities and documentation etc to get started quickly. The release can be downloaded from http://adroitlogic.org/download

UltraESB adds support for the routing and mediation based on Protocol Buffers

UltraESB adds support for the routing and mediatio...: Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python.

UltraESB is the best ESB in usability, performance and extensibility. As many organizations are now moving to protocol buffers to take advantage of its performance and multiple language support, it has been the right time that we introduced support for routing and mediating such messages based on protocol buffers.

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Past, Present and Future of ...: UltraESB Documenation

AdroitLogic has released the first phase of the official documentation for the UltraESB. This documentation is a complete reference of the UltraESB product and the associated tools.

Does your ESB vendor charge you for access to Premium Content? Well, all UltraESB documentation, including our premium Production Support guides are free!

ESB Performance Comparison Results and Details published

Last week we published the results of the Round #5 of ESB Performance Testing, and we've already had feedback to improve the configurations for some of the ESBs.

Of-course, we would be happy to work with other ESB vendors to ensure that the ESB configuration resources now hosted publicly at https://bitbucket.org/adroitlogic/esbperformance is optimal for each ESB compared in both configuration and performance tuning details.

We've just published detailed instructions for re-executing the Round #5 on an EC2 node - read about it here on http://esbperformance.org

ESB Performance Testing.. Getting ready for the next round

Its been sometime since we've compared the performance of free and open source ESBs.. and now its time for the next round..

Amazon EC2 AMI to be published!
At the end of this round, we will publish an Amazon EC2 machine image (AMI) with the selected ESBs so that any end-user can simply fire up an instance of this image, and re-run the performance suite to compare the ESBs of his choice!

Read all about it here on ESB Magic and at http://esbperformance.org  

AdroitLogic announces v1.5.0 of the UltraESB

The latest version brings support for Command Line Interface for management, improved JMX support, and integration with monitoring solutions and a high performance RAM disk based file cache

Singapore - May 20, 2011 - AdroitLogic Private Ltd. announced today the release v1.5.0 of its free and open source Enterprise Service Bus, the UltraESB. The UltraESB is released under the OSI approved GNU Affero General Public License; as well as a zero-dollar non-GPL commercial license which allows unlimited and perpetual use free of charge. First released in January 2010, the UltraESB was the first ESB to utilize memory mapped files and zero-copy, coupled with non-blocking IO to provide extreme levels of performance.

Version v1.5.0 released today offers support for a new Command Line Interface (CLI) for management allowing interactive and scripted management preferred by system administrators. The new version also has more attributes exposed for JMX based management and monitoring, including enhancements to the UConsole - web based management console. A RAM disk based file cache improves performance much further, and the exact numbers will be announced shortly with the complete ESB Performance Test Suite (http://esbperformance.org) used previously by many vendors to allow end users to measure the performance and compare it with any other open source or commercial ESB of choice.

The new release also includes a facility to automatically register ESB elements into the popular Zabbix - Open Source Monitoring solution. The close integration allows users to monitor the ESB, set triggers when certain thresholds are reached or SLAs are violated etc, and generate graphs for activity across weeks, months or even years. Improved connection debugging allows the generation of detailed connection information on HTTP level failures so that problems with clients or backend services etc can be quickly understood. The UConsole also allows the user to view the tail end of the logfile, and change the underlying Log4J configuration at runtime, and now supports the IE browser as well and includes secured access with JMX

The v1.5.0 release is approximately ~35MB in size and includes over 70 samples, test utilities and documentation etc to get started quickly. The release can be downloaded from http://adroitlogic.org