Samples, Articles and Tutorials

Getting Started

• UltraESB Users Guide - Getting Started with the UltraESB
• UltraESB Users Guide - The HelloESB Sample
• UltraESB Users Guide - Configuring and Using the IDE
• Getting started with the AdroitLogic ToolBox for the UltraESB
• Basics of a Proxy Service
• Getting started with Endpoints or Destinations
• Getting started with Sequences and Mediation

Samples

• RESTful Proxy Services with the UltraESB
• Proxying SOAP messages with the UltraESB
• Hessian binary message proxying with the UltraESB
• UltraESB as a Reverse Proxy or Web Proxy
• Proxying Text responses over HTTP/S with the UltraESB
• Proxy to and from FastInfoset with the UltraESB
• Schema validation and Error handling with the UltraESB
• HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication with the UltraESB
• Using the UltraESB as a WS-Security gateway
• Mock RESTfully with the UltraESB
• Setting up the sample AS2 trading partner
• Receiving AS2 messages from a trading partner
• Sending AS2 messages to a trading partner
• Load balancing and Fail-over with endpoints [await!]
• Suspending of endpoints on fault messages returned [await!]
• Using a Proxy Server to reach some of the external endpoints [await!]
• Using JTA Transactions with a SOAP, REST or any other Proxy Service
• Samples using JMS [await!]
• Samples using Email POP3/IMAP/SMTP [await!]
• Samples using File, SFTP, FTP and FTPS [await!]

Deployment

• Some of the basic deployment and usage patterns
• Securing the UltraESB configuration
• Configuring the HTTP/S Transport

Advanced Topics

• Non-blocking and Zero Copy Proxying
• Tuning the UltraESB for performance

Miscellaneous

• UltraESB Code Quality Metrics

Why the UltraESB is different

The UltraESB was designed and developed from scratch, with the knowledge gained and the lessons learnt from contributing over 70% of the code base of the Apache Synapse ESB, and supporting many users in production deployments over the last 4 years. While developing an architecture better by orders of magnitude, we have adhered to a few key objectives

• Reduce the overall complexity, and provide extreme performance
• Reduce the number of dependencies for easier release cycles and depend only on stable libraries (Does not depend on any SOAP engine)
• Support any type of messages natively for best possible performance; without forcing a canonical message format
• Use Java 6, and make the maximum use of its latest features
• Perform much faster WS-Security processing, without depending on any WS-Security library
• Write many unit test cases and make it easy for users to write them too
• Drop the use of an XML configuration language, and use Java source code, and any JSR 233 scripting language supported by Java
• Make it easy to configure, debug and test all from within your favorite IDE environment
• Provide simple graphical tools to test and learn the ESB features
• Ensure proper transaction support for suspend/resume and message completion activity hold and resume
• Provide extensive JMX support for management and reporting
• Provide the ability to support priority based processing and persisted/queued message processing and crash recovery in future

Start using the UltraESB, and the SOA ToolBox from AdroitLogic and Get involved!

• Read the many articles, samples and tutorials to get started; or search for keywords of interest
• Help us translate the application to multiple languages - as we hope to soon support German and Chinese!
• Inform us of issues, bugs or feature requests - we will open up a public issue tracking system soon..
• Share your thoughts and comments with other users through the forums, and give us feedback to make the UltraESB even better