I came across an open source, low cost, EAI tool the other day. Jitterbit . I’ve talked about the need for a low-cost EAI tool before, and was hoping that Sun would say something at this years Seebeyond conference, but nothing.
I took jitterbit for a spin. It’s not bad. It’s not as fancy as other 6 figure tools, but that’s ok. It stores every definition in text (xml) files, which I like. It handles mildly complicated text files and jdbc integration – which from my experience accounts for 60% of all integration needs. It also seems to do decent web service integration.
It has this notion of jitterpacks which are prebuilt integrations that can be shared. I’m unsure how useful such a thing might be, as semantics may get in the way. In any case, jitterpacks could be good.
Currently, it doesn’t integrate into any JBI, or messaging platforms such as servicemix or plain jms, but I’m sure with time this will come.
The forums suggest that there will be a workflow (composition) component coming out, which is most definitely needed. All in all, looks very promising.
The last thing I like is that it isn't a plugin to eclipse. I find eclipse ugly and unweildy. I must be the only one. I didn't bother looking to see if its eclipse underneath, but if it is - good on them.
[update: and it seems to be getting some press too]
tags:eai , open+source
Comments