Thursday, 31. August 2006
Oracle Unveils SOA 2.0 Event-Driven Middleware Suite
Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Event-Driven Architecture Suite intended to help organizations build, deploy and manage event-driven applications, based on an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Oracle Event-Driven Architecture Suite is comprised of Oracle Fusion Middleware products that the company claims will allow customers to sense, identify, analyze and respond to business events in real-time. EDA is a key component of SOA 2.0, the next-generation of service-oriented architecture (SOA) that defines how events and services are linked together to deliver a truly flexible and responsive IT infrastructure.
Oracle EDA Suite includes a design time environment to define and correlate events; Oracle Enterprise Service Bus to collect and distribute events; Oracle Business Rules to define business policies on events; Oracle Business Activity Monitoring to monitor and analyze Business Events; and pre-built solutions for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and other systems.
"As mainstream enterprises begin to adopt service-oriented architecture on a broad scale, they are beginning to see a need for another complementary design approach -- event-driven architecture," said Roy Schulte, vice president and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner. "Enterprises striving to improve their responsiveness are leveraging event-driven applications to respond quickly and precisely to rapidly changing conditions."
Oracle EDA Suite is interoperable with Oracle Containers for J2EE and non-Oracle application servers including BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server and JBoss Application Server along with messaging buses such as Oracle Advanced Queuing, SonicMQ, Tibco Enterprise JMS and WebSphereMQ. The offering includes native support to create, process, analyze and manage events and provides a declarative environment to build and adapt event- driven applications.
Related Links
http://www.oracle.com/goto/eda/