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

The WebShell ist Open Source Software and licensed under the New BSD License.

To get access to your own personal test instance go to the sones homepage and register a new account. When you’re logged in you’re only one click away from accessing the sones graphDB WebShell. You can log in using the given URL and the username and password.