Research Collection Master Thesis Complex event detection on an enterprise service bus Author(s): Kohler, Silvio Publication Date: 2009 Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005772951 Rights / License: In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted This page was generated automatically upon download from the ETH Zurich Research Collection. For more information please consult the Terms of use. ETH Library COMPLEX EVENT DETECTION ON AN ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS Master Thesis Systems Group September 16, 2008 – March 16, 2009 Silvio Kohler ETH Zurich
[email protected] Supervised by: Dr. Peter Fischer Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili 2 Abstract Service-oriented architectures (SOA) have been adapted by businesses to improve their flexibility, recently with a focus on dynamic outsourcing of business processes. A cor- nerstone of a SOA is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which is used to loosely connect services by the means of message exchange. Businesses using a SOA still need to comply with applicable laws and regulations. To ensure this compliance, the MASTER [12] project supposes a control infrastructure to be implemented as another service in the SOA. Observing the message flow on an ESB provides ample opportunities to observe and compute indicators for compliance. The control infrastructure mentioned above needs to catch raw messages on the ESB to detect complex events and answer queries posed by a higher level infrastructure. The goal of this master thesis is to close the gap between the interface of such a higher level infrastructure (defined by MASTER) and the interfaces provided by exist- ing ESBs. This includes providing an overview of existing Enterprise Service Buses and the interfaces they offer.