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| spidy |
 Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject: What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker? |
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Hi All,
What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker? What are the limitations for each? When does one go for ICS and when does one choose Message Broker?
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| jefflowrey |
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The major differences are that they are completely separate products written in completely different languages and fit into completely different market spaces.
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| hopsala |
| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker |
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| noviceinics wrote: |
| What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker? What are the limitations for each? |
I see you, as I was in the past, have been subjected to IBM marketing. For some reason or other ($), IBM markets this product as a form of "light WMB", which requires, and i'm quoting my local IBM representative: "a similar if not the same skill set".
This, however, is a flat-out lie. They are, as jeff stated, entirely different products, with different skill sets, and that are based upon different technologies.
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| When does one go for ICS and when does one choose Message Broker? |
Personally, and keep in mind this is only my opinion, I'd recommend using WBIMB, for the simple reason that ICS is yet to be a viable product. It is buggy, infernally complex and poorly supported - for the simple reason that it is too new to have enough people with the appropriate know-how, even at IBM.
I'm not saying WBIMB is not buggy, or problematic, but it is far better than it was, and has ripened over the years to a reasonable product. ICS is all too new, and kinda reminds me of MQSI v2, if that means anything to ya.
I should mention, though, that ICS is cheapr (much cheaper, so I hear), and does have some interesting features WMB doesn't have; Naturally, this works the other way too - WMB has many many features ICS does not have. Besides, the ICS low product cost is usually lost due to the investment in learning how to actually use it. I have seen an ICS project simply cancelled and started anew on WMB, since they could not get a hang on how to work with ICS, after many months of trying.
Anyway, my 2 cents
(very late EDIT: miswording)
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| sarat |
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Hi novice,
The main draw back of ICS is it can't do parellel processing....where MB can do it...In ICS u should wait till the taask complete...
And cmg to performence it can't process huge volume of data...where Mb can process more data than ICS.....
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| born2win |
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| The main draw back of ICS is it can't do parellel processing....where MB can do it...In ICS u should wait till the taask complete.. |
I cannot concur with this statement because ICS does have the capability to do parallel processing and it works with multiple threads to parallely process requests. However, you have the flexibility to set whether you want concurrent or sequential processing based on the type of interface you're developing and the incoming request.
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| And cmg to performence it can't process huge volume of data...where Mb can process more data than ICS..... |
ICS can process large messages. But it doesn't have the capability of partial processing unlike WMB which greatly improves the performance. One cool thing about ICS is that you can code in Java (which you can also do in WMB with Java Compute Node) instead of using ESQL and you do not have to use message trees. You have business objects that are replication of application data and you can manipulate them to interact with different applications.
And it is not tightly coupled with Websphere MQ unlike WMB.
I also think WMB is mostly useful for message transformation and routing whereas ICS has the capability to actually implement business logic. This is probably one of the strong points of ICS and please correct me if I am wrong.
It is probably younger than WMB by 3-4 years because it came into the market around 2002 unlike MB which was earlier. It is not totally bug free, but definitely a stable product. Also, IBM is coming up with Process Server which is the next generation ICS but with a lot more to offer. |
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| fjb_saper |
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Default behavior:
WBIMB => stateless messages
ICS => messages with state ??
Note that this is a question... 
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| born2win |
| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
Default behavior:
WBIMB => stateless messages
ICS => messages with state ??
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When you say "stateless" do you mean guaranteed delivery but once the message is given to broker there is no connection from the application side? And in a stateful condition the application waits on ICS to complete message routing and acknowledgement? |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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What I mean is that the message contains state information.
That information is then needed when the message returns to the hub to allow further processing.
State information can be anything: from the operation to perform with it to a specific processing status etc..., number of attempts, sending system identification....who has all already processed it in a process chain...
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| jefflowrey |
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What stateless really means is that each message is procesesed completely independantly of every other message - that the processing engine doesn't hold state between invocations.
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Thanks Jeff for using the right words.
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| JLRowe |
| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: Re: What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker |
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I agree, IBM talk as if they intentionally targeted ICS at a specific requirement, different to those addressed by MB and process server/workflow - this is wrong, it was inherited from an acquisition and is not a strategic product (although some of the parts from it are).
They bought crossworlds primarily for (a) the adaptors (now called WBI adaptors) and (b) the collaborations (standard business processes and flows). The Crossworlds tooling and server was added to the IBM portfolio as ICS/WBI server but has since been left alone, hence no version 5, eclipse tooling or major enhancements.
The official line is that process server is the follow on product to ICS (And workflow also).
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| noviceinics wrote: |
| What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker? What are the limitations for each? |
I see you, as I was in the past, have been subjected to IBM marketing. For some reason or other ($), IBM markets this product as a form of "light WMB", which requires, and i'm quoting my local IBM representative: "a similar if not the same skill set".
This, however, is a flat-out lie. They are, as jeff stated, entirely different products, with different skill sets, and that are based upon different technologies.
| noviceinics wrote: |
| When does one go for ICS and when does one choose Message Broker? |
Personally, and keep in mind this is only my opinion, I'd recommend using WBIMB, for the simple reason that ICS is yet to be a viable product. It is buggy, infernally complex and poorly supported - for the simple reason that it is too new to have enough people with the appropriate know-how, even at IBM.
I'm not saying WBIMB is not buggy, or problematic, but it is far better than it was, and has ripened over the years to a reasonable product. ICS is all too new, and kinda reminds me of MQSI v2, if that means anything to ya.
I should mention, though, that ICS is cheapr (much cheaper, so I hear), and does have some interesting features WMB doesn't have; Naturally, this works the other way too - WMB has many many features ICS does not have. Besides, the ICS low product cost is usually lost due to the investment in learning how to actually use it. I have seen an ICS project simply cancelled and started anew on WMB, since they could get a hang on how to work with it.
Anyway, my 2 cents |
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| hopsala |
| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject: Re: What are the major differences in ICS and Message Broker |
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| JLRowe wrote: |
| They bought crossworlds primarily for (a) the adaptors (now called WBI adaptors) and (b) the collaborations (standard business processes and flows). |
I'd add an important (c) buy out the competition. IBM have been doing this in recent years quite a lot (see Neon), buying a competitor product, thinking "well, I already Bought the damn thing, why not market it?" even though it does not fit to their general strategy ("Strategy is for pussies!"*). Then a strategy is sort of "invented" in the process of customer feedback and corrections.
Natrurally, in the end the customer takes the heat.
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| The Crossworlds tooling and server was added to the IBM portfolio as ICS/WBI server but has since been left alone, hence no version 5, eclipse tooling or major enhancements. |
Say, you just got me rather concerned (been giving WBIe courses at IBM, and supported several clients who use it). Do you think this will become a defunct product? like AMI, and the Neon package?
Has anyone heard anything official concerning this?
*(oh, and I meant "kittens", sheesh) |
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