Software Ag, Inc.

Software Ag USA, Inc.

Derek Rokicki

Elliot Holar

Vasudeva Kothamasu

Jason Simpson

The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques and, more particularly, to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, a publishing application, and first and second broker clusters are provided. Each broker cluster comprises a plurality of brokers, and each broker is configured to relay messages from the publishing application to at least one subscribing application. A composite cluster connection is associated with the publishing application, and cluster connections are associated with the composite cluster connection. The message generated by the publishing application is sent to the broker cluster in accordance with a user-defined composite policy. The message is routed from the composite cluster connection to at least one cluster connection based on a first policy layer. The messaging is routed from the at least one cluster to at least one broker based on a second policy layer.

Systems and/or methods for policy-based JMS broker clustering

The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, a first standards-based messaging protocol (e.g., the JMS messaging protocol) may be used to create a trigger so that a message envelope according to a second standards-based messaging protocol (e.g., SOAP) may be communicated over the first standards-based messaging transport layer. In other words, in certain example embodiments, a trigger according to a first protocol (e.g., JMS) may have a message according to a second protocol (e.g., SOAP) associated therewith so as to enable the message to be communicated over the first protocol's transport layer. The trigger may be configured to receive a message from a web service consumer via the JMS messaging protocol and pass it to the web service stack for dispatch to the web service provider. Similarly, for a request-reply web service exchange pattern, the trigger may be configured to send the reply message from the web service provider, as returned by the web service layer, to the web service consumer via the JMS messaging protocol.

Systems and/or methods for standards-based messaging

The example embodiments disclosed herein relate to application integration techniques and, more particularly, to application integration techniques built around the publish-and-subscribe model (or one of its variants). In certain example embodiments, triggers are provided for establishing subscriptions to publishable document types and for specifying the services that will process documents received by the subscription. A standards-based messaging protocol (e.g., JMS messaging) may be fully embedded as a peer to a proprietary messaging protocol provided to an integration server's trigger subsystem so that all or substantially all of the feature-rich capabilities available via the proprietary protocol may also become available via the standards-based messaging protocol. The triggers may be JMS triggers in certain example embodiments.

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