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Most EAI and ESB solutions are based on a centralized architecture. This choice implies simplicity of configuration and maintenance. What this approach does not acknowledge is the risk of a serious incident occurring with the middleware solution. Such an incident would have a serious, if not catastrophic, impact on the business.
Most EAI and ESB solutions are based on a centralized architecture. While this implies simplicity of configuration and maintenance, it also means increased risk of downing the whole infrastructure, in case the middleware crashes. Such an incident would have a serious, if not catastrophic, impact on the business.
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.
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Petals ESB is bundled with a [Web Console|webconsole:], web-GUI to easily watch and administer the ESB: deployement of new services units and assemblies, components management, fine-grained technical monitoring, testing facilities.
One of Petals ESB's most useful add-on is the [Web Console|webconsole:], web-GUI to easily watch and administer the ESB: deployement of new services units and assemblies, components management, fine-grained technical monitoring, testing facilities.
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