Glassfish Esb Features

GlassFish ESB Open Source ESB

Offers developers the benefit of transparency, early access, and the ability to influence and contribute to the future of Sun GlassFish ESB through the Open ESB, NetBeans and GlassFish communities Offers businesses low barriers to entry and exit, no vendor lock-in, and the ability to evaluate the source code before making a large commitment to a software platform

Simple configuration and control and a fully integrated development environment

Improves developer productivity, removes complexity from Java development, and simplifies the development and deployment of nextgeneration, mission-critical applications

Integration

Enables composite application development for service-oriented architectures through integration with Sun's MDM Suite, Identity Manager, Access Manager (OpenSSO), Portal Server (OpenPortal), and Registry Server

Lightweight, modular architecture

Enables accelerated SOA-based service development, deployment, and testing, resulting in improved developer productivity, lower risks and total cost of ownership, and shortened time-to-market

Cost-effective commercial support from Sun

Fully supported by Sun with support subscriptions, testing, documentation, certification, training, and indemnification Offers two levels of cost-efficient annual subscriptions: Silver and Gold, including live call transfer for high-priority production issues

Platform and third-party support

Compatible with a number of JBI-compliant plugins that provide a range of different technical capabilities Runs on a wide range of operating systems, databases, Web servers, and hardware platforms

Unified core for SOA

Creates a highly unified experience for businesses and developers looking for a consistent infrastructure that covers the design, deployment, monitoring and management phases of the software life cycle

Enhanced interoperability

Leading SOA and WS-* (WS-IT/Metro) support with industry-leading interoperability with other platforms Makes it easier for enterprises to develop secure, cross-platform Web services in an SOA that are reliable and faster to deploy and will operate seamlessly in increasingly heterogeneous environments