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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:14:52 +0530
From: "Venkata Krishnan" <for.svkrish@gmail.com>
To: tuscany-dev@ws.apache.org, antelder@apache.org
Subject: Re: What is Tuscany?
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Hi,

Yes.  I've also been asked a few times about how Tuscany compares with ESB.
If not for anything it would be good atleast from the standpoint of
positioning Tuscany vs ESB.  Are there any documentation that positions SCA
vis-a-vis ESB  ?

- Venkat

On Dec 8, 2007 6:21 PM, ant elder <ant.elder@gmail.com> wrote:

> (forwarded to dev list from user list to discuss this esb aspect)
>
> I'm interested in this ESB aspect and wonder wouldn't it be good to have
> some sort of ESB like thing as part of Tuscany.  You can use SCA in an
> ESB,
> Tuscany with all its bindings and implementation types has a lot of
> similar
> functionality to other open source ESBs. Its quite a big leap to get
> people
> to switch to using Tuscany/SCA for developing entire applications so
> having
> something like a "Tuscany ESB" could provide a stepping stone to give
> people
> exposure to SCA without such a big up front commitment.
>
> Does anyone else think this is an area worth exploring?
>
>   ...ant
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Raymond Feng <enjoyjava@gmail.com>
> Date: Dec 7, 2007 5:17 PM
> Subject: Re: What is Tuscany?
> To: tuscany-user@ws.apache.org
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Tuscany is not an ESB offering. My understanding is that it's closer to
> the
> business application developers by providing a service assembly model and
> programming model. The ESB will provide the flexible IT infrastructure
> that
> composite applications can be deployed.
>

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