Many of you as (Java) programmers generate business purpose code, like "confirming an order" or "find available products". At times, you may also want to connect to external systems and services, since your application in isolation alone will not provide you the required functionality. When the number of such connections increases, you would be generating more and more of "integration code", mixed along with your business code.

In this short article, Binildas A. Christudas introduces the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification and discusses how it is covered in his new book, Service Oriented Java Business Integration

What does the book have to offer? or What does it teach?

• This book introduces ESB - The book guarantees you understand ESB and can also code for ESB.
• This book introduces JBI - The book don't reproduce specification, but give you just enough highlights alone.
• Teaches you ServiceMix - ServiceMix is an Apache Open source Java ESB. The book teach you from step 1 of installation
• Teaches you to implement practical scenarios - Proxies, Web Services gateway, web services over JMS, service versioning, etc.
• Implementation for EIP - Gives you code on how to implement Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
• For more, have a glance through the Table of Contents [PDF]

Who would benefit from it?

Anything special about the book

• First book published on JBI
• First book published on Apache ServiceMix
• First book which shows you how to integrate following ESB, using lightweight tools.
• A book with code, which makes you feel running and seeing the code in action, even without actually running the code (nothing prevents you from trying the samples). You can go though a Sample Chapter here: JBI-Bind-Web-Services-in-ESB-Gateway.pdf [1 MB]
• No heavy Workshops, IDEs, Studios, Plugins or 4GB RAM required - Use a text editor and Apache Ant, and you can run the samples.
• Based on existing knowledge on web services
• Authored and reviewed by practicing Architects, who are developers too in their everyday role.

What this book is not about?

• Not a collection of white papers alone - The book provide you implementation samples.
• Not a repetition of ServiceMix online documentation - The book provide practical scenarios as samples
• Not about JBI Service Provider Interface (SPI) - Hence this book is not for tool vendors, but for developers

Fine, if you think you need some starters before the real chill, you can go through the article titled Aggregate Services in ServiceMix JBI ESB

Service Oriented Java Business Integration

About the Author

Binildas A. Christudas provides Technical Architecture consultancy for IT solutions. He has got over 13 years of IT experience, mostly in Microsoft and Sun technologies. Distributed computing and Service Oriented Integration are his main stream skills, with extensive hands on experience in Java and C#.NET programming. He currently works for Infosys Technologies where he heads the J2EE Architects group servicing Communications Service Provider clients. Binil has worked with several organizations including IBS Software Services and Tata Consultancy Services. Binil is a Sun Certified Programmer, Developer, Business Component Developer and Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Certified Professional and Open Group (TOGAF8) Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. He is also a Zapthink Licensed Architect (LZA) in SOA. He spends free time with wife Sowmya & daughter Ann in "God's Own Country" (Kerala). Contact Binil at biniljava<{at}>yahoo.co.in or binil_christudas<{at}>infosys.com.