Petals ESB is an open-source ESB developed by Linagora. It is a tool for implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It is standard, modular, and physically distributed, to adapt to large-scale infrastructures.
Petals ESB is based on JBI (JSR 208) industry specification. It was the first ESB certified by Sun Microsystems under the JSR 208 TCK. Based on standards, it also supports SOA standards such as BPMN and Enterprise Integration Patterns capabilities.
Fractal deployment framework, JBI pluggable components, and open source licensing make it modular and customizable.
The originality of Petals is to implement a highly distributed topology.(2008) Adrien Louis, ESB Topology alternatives, InfoQ The first stable version of Petals ESB, called PEtALS, was released on September 21, 2006.(2006) Adrien Louis, PEtALS 1.0 community announcement, OW2 mailing list archive
Features PEtALS main technical features : Scalable for large architectures, due to distributed topology JBI certified by Sun Microsystems Development tools: JBI component framework, Eclipse configuration plugin, Operating tools: Petals CLI, Petals Cockpit Quality of service: High availability (load balancing), Persistence, Security, Adaptable: Fractal modular framework, JBI plugins Connectors: SOAP (Web services), Rest, Local File, FTP/SFTP, HTTP, Quartz, JMS, SMTP/POP/IMAP, JDBC/SQL, EJB. Compatible with JBI plugins. Processing components : BPMN (Flowable), EIP (Apache Camel), XSLT, XSD validation, POJO/JSR181, RMI.
See also Enterprise Integration Patterns Enterprise Messaging System Message Oriented Middleware Mule Servicemix
References
External links https://web.archive.org/web/20150406045742/http://petals.ow2.org/index.html ESB White paper, Adrien Louis, EBM Websourcing article: Open Source Middleware tends PEtALS, CNET, Matthew Broersma, 26 October 2006 announcement: Version 2.0 of PEtALS ESB available