Membrane ESB

Reverse HTTP Proxy for Integration and Service Virtualization

... is a synchronous open source ESB that provides integration and service virtualization based on HTTP. To get started see the SOAP and REST tutorials or have a look at the examples.

Highlights

Reverse proxy
Open Source under ASF 2.0 licence
HTTP loadbalancing
URL rewriting
Performance statistics (DB or CSV)
Access control
Embeddable into any Java application
Very fast
Extensible
Flexible spring configuration
Commandline interface and Web Console

SOA Features

Rewriting of endpoints and schemaLocations in WSDL
Web Services Loadbalancing
Validates SOAP messages against WSDL

Documentation

Find tutorials, references and step by step explanations in the documentation.

Problems and Support

You can browse the Membrane Monitor Mailing List at Google Groups. Post any questions, feature requests and feedback to the list. A subscription is not needed for posting. You also can get commercial support for the Membrane products.

License

The Membrane SOAP Monitor software is provided under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0. The software contains external components and libraries. See the notice regarding external components in the distribution archives..

ESB 3.2.4 - released 02/03/12

Membrane ESB 3.2.4 is a bugfix release preceding the soon upcoming version 3.3. The distribution contains the following fixes and improvements:

Fixed attribute parsing with older Java versions.

Fixed resource resolving for war deployment under Linux.

Support for clusters with missing names.

Improved error handling in the WebServerInterceptor.

URL to admin console abbreviated from /admin to /.

ESB 3.2.0 - XML DoS Protection, Usage Statistics, etc. 11/14/11

The new Membrane ESB 3.2.0 release adds protection against XML-related attacks and Denial of Service to the feature list. It improves configuration of the request and response logging, shows per-proxy usage statistics in the admin console and has Linux startup scripts for the examples.
The leight-weight open source HTTP router can be used for synchronous integration and is available under the Apache License 2.0.

Membrane ESB 10/21/11

During the last 12 months Membrane Router has made a huge development. The router now offers many features like transformation, content-based routing and filtering that it is more and more like an ESB. It is still small, fast and flexible and the only transport it offers is HTTP. Membrane ESB is an Open Source tool that helps you with HTTP based integration for synchronous communication.