XYBASE Message Broker

The XYBASE Message Broker ensures continued expandability and adaptability in your business.

Enterprises today run on numerous types of systems designed for specific tasks. Most of these systems are based on proprietary products and are hard to integrate. What began as a goal to save money for a particular task often ends up as limiting an enterprise’s flexibility in adopting other systems. Enterprises want the freedom to choose the best and most economical system for their establishment. In addition, they need a system that can help in the transfer of information between the different systems. It will have to ensure the enterprise’s expandability and adaptability to the future additions

Overview

The concept of a message broker arises from the need to send and receive information between different systems. For instance, a retail system might need to provide information to the inventory and financial system. The message broker acts as a middleware where any information update in the retail system can be sent to the inventory and financial system, and vice versa.

Before the advent of the message broker, tedious and costly integration work must be carried out in order for two or more systems to send and receive information between each other. This method employs a “point-to-point” architecture whereby a new system is required to integrate with all the other existing systems. The cycle repeats itself when another new system is added, getting more complex for every new system. Imagine the time and financial cost incurred when a new system needs to integrate with more than 20 existing systems.

The message broker helps businesses integrate their different systems in a more cost effective way. The XMB version 3.0 is an enhancement of the continuous effort of XYBASE to enable enterprises to implement Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

Our message broker offers businesses the ability to exchange real-time operational information as and when needed. Along the same lines, businesses can also adapt to different systems without any problems. Costly reengineering processes can be avoided with the implementation of a message broker. Furthermore, businesses will have the freedom to choose new systems to suit its needs and implement it without restricting business growth.

XMB – Ensuring Continues Expandability and Adaptability For Your Business

The XMB provides businesses with added features and functionality. It can ensure your business’ continued expandability and adaptability to new systems. Management will not be hampered and influenced by existing systems when deciding which new systems to add.

The XMB is developed based on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Standards and on an open platform concept, thus ensuring its easy adaptability to different systems. It is able to connect to different systems via rules definable by users. These rules typically define which system to send information to, when there is an update.

With this open concept, XMB enables businesses to freely add new systems as and when required without affecting the existing systems.

Who Can Use It?

XMB is most suited for businesses that currently has multiple, inherently different systems transferring real-time information between each other. These businesses face a big challenge when they wish to add new systems. XMB can help these businesses cross this hurdle by letting them add new systems with ease. Investing in XMB will not only allow them peace of mind but also offers them extensive savings in the long run.

How it works?

XMB acts as the middleware between different systems. It receives update, processes it according to user-defined rules before broadcasting it to relevant systems. By employing the “hub and spoke” architecture, each system will need to communicate with XMB only while other systems are transparent.

Summary of Benefits

• Flexibility to connect to multiple heterogeneous platforms
• New systems may be added easily as XMB is scaleable and extensible
• Systems are able to interface with one another irrespective of platforms
• Guaranteed delivery of messages via the message queuing capability
• Messages may be multicast to different systems
• Synchronous (request/reply) messaging
• Asynchronous (one-way) messaging
• Support for SMTP and SOAP protocols
• Priority-based routing
• Combination of two incoming messages into one outgoing message
• Multiple language support (Java, VB, C/C++).

Minimum System Requirements

Memory Minimum of 256MB RAM, 1GB recommended
Storage Minimum of 100MB of hard disk space, 400MB recommended
Platform Windows NT4; Windows 2000; IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris; HP-UX
Application Server IBM Websphere; Oracle 9iAS; Orion; Jboss BEA Weblogic
Database OBM DB2; Oracle 8i/9i or any other database that supports HDBC2.0

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