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Petals ESB is an open-source Enterprise Service Bus.
The last Petals release comes with...
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The last Petals distribution includes...
The Petals Server
A stand-alone Java server, which is the ESB itself.
This server is made up of several modules (service registry, routing, transporters...).
JBI Components
Binding Components enable bridges between Petals services and external systems or applications.
Service Engines are components with internal logic, such as service orchestration, transformation, routing, etc.
Administration
Petals CLI is a command-line interface to administrate a set of Petals servers.
The Petals ANT tasks is a set of ANT tasks to execute administration commands.
Platform Monitoring
Petals ESB includes a JMX server.
This JMX API has been designed so that it can be used with tools like Cacti and Nagios.
Flow Monitoring
Petals ESB supports an additional log level called MONIT.
Used in combination with specific log handlers, it is possible to extract and collect messages and flows information.
Exploitation tools are not part of the Petals suite. They depend on the context (from BI tools to custom dedicated applications).
Development
Petals Studio is a custom Eclipse distribution for Petals ESB.
The Petals Maven plugin is a Maven plugin with additional support for Petals ESB.
Packaging
Petals and its tools can be installed manually through a ZIP archive.
There are also Debian packages for the Petals server, Petals CLI, and their extensions.
Experimental
The Petals Web Console is a web application to administrate a set of Petals servers.
Petals Simple Flow Viewer is a web application to visualize Petals flows extracted with the default file-based logger.
You will find documentation about these different parts in the space associated with your Petals distribution.
A Petals distribution is an archive with Petals ESB and all of its supported and compatible tools and components. The only exception is Petals Studio, which is too big to be included in the distribution, and therefore available separately. This notion of Petals dsitribution exists since the version 4.0 of Petals ESB. Previously, elements were released in several archives.