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I've been diving into the deep end of integration type stuff lately. I've done work in that arena before, but recently committed to learning craploads more about this stuff so, being myself (cheap, novelty junkie, open source whore) I've been poking sharp sticks into the open source stuff around (as well as the really expensive stuff -- some of which is pretty impressive).

Current playthings include:

• XFire: SOAP stack which plays nicely with others
• JORAM: JMS provider with a good reputation
• ActiveMQ: JMS provider with a good reputation (okay, I've used this before and quite liked it)
• PXE: recently open sourced orchestration engine with a good rep
• MULE: Possibly dated, but some people I respect keep plugging it, EAI broker
• Axis2: Cleaned up Axis, nuff said!
• ServiceMix: only JBI container I'm aware of which is usable right now
• WScript: Doesn't exist yet ;-)

Additionally, I fully agree with Steve Loughran's assertions in his Alpine paper. You are working with XML -- accept that. One of the things I really like about XFire is that I can use XMLBeans -- the most "true" Java-XML mapper I know of -- XOM would be nice as well. Something xpath-able at a minimum.