Comparison of Enterprise Application Integration platforms

The master's thesis explores the domain of Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) along with tools and platforms that allow such type of integration. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the most mature of the EAI integration concepts, enables to create very powerful platform for EAI. The products based on the ESB concept are very often used as an integration backbone in contenporary SOA (Service Oriented architecture) environments. Many of them are available under an expensive commercial license. Contrary to that, there also exist Open Source based ESB products. The main part of the thesis is a detailed comparison of selected Open Source ESB products according to selected criteria. The thesis also tries to answer the question, whether these Open Source ESB products are capable and mature enought to be used in a corporate environment