The future of middleware:

enterprise application
integration and Fuse
Giuseppe Brindisi
EMEA Solution Architect/Red Hat
AGENDA
 Agenda

● Build an enterprise application integration platform that

is:

●
Resilient
●
Maintainable
●
Flexible
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With high performances
What is EIP?
 What is EIP?

• Work by Hohpe / Woolf

• Became a de facto standard

• speak the same language

• reuse of know how and solutions

• Avoid custom code for integrations

• performance, bugs, less lines of code

 Enterprise Integration Patterns

http://camel.apache.org/eip
What's JBOSS Fuse?
 What's JBOSS Fuse?

• An integration Middleware built on:

• JBoss AMQ (ActiveMQ) for messaging

• Camel for mediations (routes)

• CXF for Web Services

• Fabric for governance (registry,

provisioning)

• many “minor” subcomponents

What is Jboss FUSE?
What is OSGI?
 What is OSGI?

• A standard for a “Modular” Java

• how to “pack” code in a bundle (jar)

• OSGi bundles can be remotely installed,

started, stopped, paused, updated and
more (Lifecycle Management)
• OSGi = SOA in a JVM

• First version in 2000, coming from the

telco world.
What is Camel?
 What is Camel?

• Framework Open source implementing EIP

patterns
• mapping 1:1 between pattern and
components
• camel routes managed through OSGI
• OSGI Container
• OSGI : Container = EJB : J2EE Server
What is Camel?
What is ZooKeeper?
 What is ZooKeeper?

• Part of the Hadoop ecosystem

• Used to build coordination logics

• Sharding, Failover, Discovery, Master

election, ecc.

• Used by HBase, Kafka, Solr, Yahoo, etc.

What is MAVEN?
 MAVEN

• Maven is the “de facto” standard in Java

dependency management

• Nexus (Artifactory) is a centralized Maven

repo that makes “Devops” easy

• controls dependencies

• a server contains each and every project

artifact
What is KARAF?
 What is KARAF?

• Lightweight container for OSGI

• Hot deploy, logging, shell, configuration,

provisioning services

• JEE component : JBoss = bundle OSGI : Karaf

What is ACTIVE-MQ?
 What is ACTIVE-MQ?

• Open Source Messaging Broker

• JMS, AMQP, MQTT, OpenWire, STOMP, REST

• Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP

• Pluggable Transport

• in-VM, TCP, SSL, NIO, UDP, JGroups

What is CXF?
 What is CXF?

• De facto open source standard for Web

Services

• Used in JBoss too

• WS-*, REST support

• …
What is Fabric?
 What is Fabric?

• Allocate Resources, Install & Connect

containers in your environment
• Publish Services, Discover & Coordinate

• Manage

• Provision

• Visualize

• Scale Up / Down

• and much more…

 What is Fabric?

• Introduced with Fuse technology

• But now an independent project

• http://fabric8.io

• It is now (will be) cross product (Fuse, EAP,

Openshift, ecc.)
 What is Fabric?

• Provisioning

• configurations, scripts, code (aggregated in

profiles)

• On every kind of container

• Karaf, Wildfly, Tomcat, plain JVMs

• Everywhere

• Openshift, Docker, any public/private IAAS,

bare metal, hybrid.
Example Architecture
Example Architecture
Architecture: Camel node details
The Console
The Console: Hawt.io – camel route view
 The Console: command line console

• Fuse Command Line console

• SSH based

• Total local and remote control of the system

• Scriptable
The Console: command line console
Performance
 Performance - CAMEL

• Camel is a Java technology and doesn’t

introduce any overhead

• Performance depends by the Camel

components used

• provided components has usually been

finely tuned and tested in hundreds of
customers

• Camel code is probably much faster than

your code ;)
 Performance - ActiveMQ

• AMQ persistence File system based

• LevelDB, a nosql developed by Google

• O(1) to load stored messages thanks to the

BTree Google algorithm

• 3 or 30.000.000 persistent messages

instantaneously “loaded” by a broker.
 Performance - ActiveMQ

• LevelDB has excellent write performance

• Disk speed is the single most important

factor.

• About 10k msg/sec (5kb) of sustained traffic

on a modern laptop with an SSD

• About 4.5k msg/sec (5kb) of sustained traffic

on Amazon server (9k msg/sec using both
disks)
High Availability and Scalability
 High Availability and Scalability

HA
• AMQ can be configured in Master - Slave
• 1 Slave per 1 Master
• N Slaves per M Masters (example: 2 Slaves
per 10 Masters)

Scalability
• AMQ can scale horizontally with different
topologies:
• Network of Brokers
• Client side partitioning
Conclusions
 Conclusions

• Resiliency
• Distributed Architecture
• Failover
• Master/Slave for High Availability
• Horizontal Scalability: Network of Brokers,
Client side partitioning
• Maintainability
• OSGI based, standardized software component
lifecycle (with versioning)
• Powerful admin console
• Performance
Links to useful resources
 Links to useful resources

• Fabric • Profiles
• Container • Bundle
• OSGI • OSGI
• Route (Camel) • EIP, Enterprise
• Provisioning Integration Patterns
• Versioning • Aggregator
• Maven/Nexus • Splitter
• GIT • CBR
• Queue • Enrichment
• REST/WS • Multicast
• Zookeeper
• Wiretap
 Links to useful resources

Karaf
Active MQ
http://karaf.apache.org
http://activemq.apache.org
Fabric8
Camel
http://fabric8.io
https://camel.apache.org
JBoss FUSE 6.1 EA builds
CXF
https://repository.jboss.org/ne
http://cxf.apache.org
xus/content/repositories/ea/or
ZooKeeper
g/jboss/fuse/jboss-fuse-full/
http://zookeeper.apache.org
Red Hat Supported!
https://www.jboss.org/product
s/fuse.html
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Annex
Software Development Process
 Software Development Process

• Integration requisite

• If tag A contained in Message M has in

corresponding record in table B the X field

• Trasform M (remove t1 tag, add X tag)

• Add tag t3 to Message M in any case

 Software Development Process

“Translation” in Enterprise Integration

Patterns
Software Development Process
 Software Development Process

• Transform EIP in code

• using a DSL in Java

• using a DSL in XML

• with a GUI editor (Eclipse plugin)

 Software Development Process

• Bundle in an OSGI component

• mvn install

• Push on Maven/Nexus repo

• mvn deploy
 Software Development Process

• With CLI console or Web Console, and

following Roll-out company plan, pull the
bundle from the repository

• Selected containers will download and start

automatically the bundle
 Software Development Process

• “Canonical” process is:

• create a new route implementing business

• pack the route in a bundle and “assign” to a

new version of a profile

• upgrade one of more containers to this profile

to check everything is ok

• roll-out on every container or roll-back

 Software Development Process

• “DEFCON 2” process:

• Open the web console on a production

server

• edit the route on the fly