esb solution, servicemix or wso2?
We are trying to decide which ESB choose between ServiceMix or WSO2?
We are looking an esb to:
- Support different protocols (REST, SOAP, JMS, HTTPS,..)
- Generate statistics or some console to see "what's happening, how many request are arriving, how many of them are failing,..."
- Develop proxy services
- Support for JMS
An important point is the price, ServiceMix an WSO2 is free, but ServiceMix also has free support,... I don't know if WSO2 so.
Answer
We have been using WSO2 for projects and to be honest as Java developer I do not like WSO2. - WSO2 documentation is very bad. Basically all their examples are copy paste from Apache synapse. - The consulting architect sold us WSO2 by showing how easy it was to develop proxy services on the GUI, but if you try to go beyond the basic and look for samples that would tell you what a particular option does in GUI, then you will be sorry. If a company promotes the video that it also offers a GUI based solution because many Java developers do not like to work with XMLs then it should have samples and document showing how to do stuff using their GUI and not just copy pasting Xml solutions from Apache Synapse.
When I was using wso2 ESB 4.XX version(A newer version is out there), I discovered several bugs in the GUI. P.S. I hear that those bugs have been fixed in the latest version of WSO2 ESB.
I have since moved to using serviceMix and I could not be happier. Service mix is very intuitive and documentation is excellent. As far as the argument goes that WSO2 has eclipse plugin then so does ServiceMix(check out Fuse ESB IDE).
My manager was sold when he read on the WSO2 landing page that EBAY uses WSO2 so it must be very good. Now that was wrong approach. Ebay may have had a different problem than ours so as someone mentioned above put your problem ahead of the product that you intent to use.
Learning curve is very steep with WSO2 and good luck with finding solution on google.
In Servicemix you can use DSL / XML or pure java to do your thing.
Update: With the latest release of WSO2 ESB, WSO2 has created samples/examples which shows how to do things in GUI and via plain old XML.