[Fixme excerpt hidden abstract]excerpt : Petals Platform, Petals Platform is a full-fledged open source middleware solution, to answer all your integration, exchange and architecture needs.

h1. What is Petals Platform?

Petals Platform is a middleware solution, composed of following open source software:
- Petals ESB, an enterprise service bus and the core of the platform, provided with many standards components for communication/data integration () and data transformation.
- Petals Studio, an IDE based on Eclipse, with wizards, interface and code validation all dedicated to Petals ESB environment.
- Petals View, a business monitoring software.
- Petals Master, a governance software to make the most of your services architecture.

The combined capabilities of these tools make Petals Platform a complete solution for seamless applications and services integration.

It is developed by EBM Websourcing, aka Petals Link. [FIXME : cloak description EBM]

h1. Petals Platform Features

h2. Petals ESB, a light, flexible, natively distributed bus

Beyond the inherent improvments of an ESB over traditional EAI solutions, Petals ESB uses a best-of-breed approach and open source development model to distinguish from other ESB solutions, bringing essential features.

h3. Natively Distributed Architecture

Most of EAI and ESB solutions are based on a centralized architecture. This choice brings simplicity of configuration and maintenance. One risk however is the great loss the company would sustain in case of serious problem with the middleware.
Choosing a middleware clusters reduce this risk but adds great complexity to the infrastructure.
Petals ESB chose the third way, using a P2P-like approach: the container can be installed on several machines, each one hosting its set of services, router and shared registry of services.

Petals ESB is entirely modular, making it a light platform, running without application server. Numerous components are already available for data exchange (FTP, SOAP, REST, POP...) and data manipulation (POJO, Quartz, XSLT, Talend...)
h2 Monitoring and Orchestration capabilities
By combining Petals BPEL/SCA service engines and our dedicated IDE, Petals Studio, you can easily assemble individual services to form business processes, with GUI and code validation.
Using notifications service engine, Petals View allows easy monitoring configuration, so that end business users can watch their business processes and analyse their efficiency.

h3. Standard and Open Source

Petals ESB is one of the few to be fully compliant with the Java Business Integration specification. It makes full use of standards protocols.

h2. What is an Enterprise Service Bus?

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h2. From EAI to ESB

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h2. ESB Technology Overview

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h1. Petals ESB, the Enterprise Service Bus



[Check the full Petals ESB datasheet|http://www.petalslink.com/en/product/petals-esb]