Comments on: WebSphere DataPower vs WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus

By: Arnold

Arnold — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:49:04 +0000

I question this comment – You don’t have a nice candy-coated UI like WebSphere Integration Developer…

You can use eclipse or xmlspy w/ plugin to develop and unit-test your xslt’s AND you get the web-gui interface for configuring your policies… my $0.02

By: ozialien

ozialien — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:16:01 +0000

First things first: IBM is selling a topology not a general purpose platform for ESB. Its not in their interest to sell you the ideal platform running on any architecture.

WebsphereESB is a SCA Activation inside an EJB. So the threading model and all resource contention are within the constructs of an EJB.

Websphere ESB seems to have a hard problem correlating Async to Sync requests. Protocols are limited.

DataPower seems to have better management with less Protocols, and higher Low Latency Model (LLM) performance.

Its hard to find a polished SEDA scheduler based model for ESB. Although if your willing to put up with a Beta capability in managing your App, or writing your own JMX controllers there are plenty.

Wikipedia has a good review of all of them.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:58 +0000

Here we have DataPower as the entry point for the EAI layer. One of the products sitting behind it is Message Broker.

Now, I understand DataPower’s capabilities and what Message Broker can do. But I’m not 100% sure where WESB or Process Server fits. Could you elaborate on that? Thanks.

By: Prem

Prem — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:59:35 +0000

I have been following Joe Natoli’s blog from intel. (http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/08/11/does-a-soa-soft-appliance-an-esb/). Interesting question to consider – if you can get the equivalent or better performance that comes from IBM’s hardware appliance(as listed above) but on general purpose x86 platform, AND, you get the flexibility to address some of the weak points listed – would hardware appliance still be preferred? Would be interested to know the answer.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:41:08 +0000

Hi Albert,

All my experiences come from IBM products because I have access to them via IBM PartnerWorld to play around with. Unfortunately, this means I don’t get exposure to any non-IBM products that compete in the same space, so I don’t have any opinion on Intel’s offering.

These network ‘xml devices’ really interest me. I’m curious to see how they continue to be marketed and how they will contain feature creep to retain performance.

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:10:22 +0000

Interesting post and analysis of a datapower. Have you looked at all at the Intel SOA Expressway? I saw the activity this week and my understanding is it is based off technology from a former competitor of Datapower. Was interested to hear what you thought.