We always think about new ways to integrate GraphDB into existing environments. And one of those environments our users are working with right now are the several Enterprise Service Busses which are available right now.
One big player in the ESB environment is the Mule Open Source ESB:
“Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration framework. It can handle services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies. The platform is Java-based, but can broker interactions between other platforms such as .NET using web services or sockets.
The architecture is a scalable, highly-distributable object broker that can seamlessly handle interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications and almost all modern transports and protocols.”
In order to show how a GraphDB integrates into those typical ESB environments we created a small example.
The architecture of this example is like this:
The idea behind this is that an example Message-WebApp is posting a message to the Mule ESB and then this message gets transformed and in the last consequence consumed by a sones RESTful webservice hosted by a GraphDB.
You can read more in this tutorial here and you can download the sourcecode here.
Source 1: http://www.mulesoft.org/
Source 2: https://github.com/sones/sones-mule
Source 3: http://developers.sones.de/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials:muleexampleapp
