[QSOS-general] ESB grid

[Raphaël Semeteys]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a QSOS grid for ESB open source solutions.
Here is a first draft of such a grid in case any of you have comments.

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Basic features
  Transport
      Supported communication modes
          synchronous
          asynchronous
          point-to-point
          publish-subscribe
          fire and forget
          events
      Transaction support
      Supported protocols
          JMS ?
          HTTP
          SOAP
          FTP
          SMTP
          RMI
          XMPP
          Proprietary MOMs
          Integrated MOM
  Routing
      Rule based
          Content based routing
          Address based routing
          Metadata based routing
      Script based
  Transformation
      Data formats
          XML
              XSLT
              XQuery
          Non XML formats
      Values ?
      Rules based
      Script based
      Schema validation
  Adapters
      Functional adapters
          ERP : SAP, ...
          CRM : PeopleSoft, ...
      Data adapters
          SGBD : JDBC, CICS, ...
          File
      Technical adapters ?
          JMS ?
          CORBA
          JCA

Advanced features
  Orchestration
      Business rules
      BPEL support
      Available design tools
  Security
      Authentication
          JAAS
          SAML
      Authorization
          SAML
      Data encryption
      Data checksum
      PKI support ?
  Administration
      Monitoring
          SNMP support
          JMX support
          Entreprise management software support (HP Openview, IBM 
Tivoli, ...)
      QoS
          Logging
          Fault tolerance
          Scalability
          Guaranteed delivery
      Process control
          BAM (business activity monitoring)
          Exception handling
      Administration tools
      Deployment management
      Service discovery
  Development tools

Integration
  Supported standards
      BPEL
      Web Services Stack
          WSDL
          SOAP
          UDDI
          WS-*
      Java
          JCA
          JBI
      XML
          XSLT
          XQuery
          XSD
      .Net ?
  Plugin architecture
  Extensiblity API
      For adapters
      For transports
  Supported application servers

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Thanks in advance !

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Raphaël Semeteys