This month, I stayed in Paris for few days and by chance, I had the opportunity to met people from EBM Websourcing, Gael Blondelle (CTO) and Pascal Portes (Sales Manager).

EBM resourcing is a software company which develops an interesting implementation of JBI named Petals. The company is member of the JSR 312 (JBI V2.0) expert group.

During one hour, we discussed about JBI projects, compared Petals and Open-ESB features. We shared ideas and feedback on ESB projects and integration technologies.

Petals is a JBI open-Source implementation that contrary to Open-ESB, has been conceived from the beginning, as a stand-alone application fully distributed. This is one of the main strengths of the product. You can define multiple domains on different machines and different locations, and consider them as a global bus (NMR).

Petals and Open-ESB integration processes are similar but Petals development tools (based on Eclipse) do not emphasize on WSDL as Netbeans does.

Petals is packaged with many Services Engines (BPEL, XSLT, EIP…) and Binding Components (Http, Soap, FTP, Mail…). A nice and easy-to-use console is provided for administration and supervision.

Congratulation to EMBWebsourcing for this very interesting project and Good luck to Petals.