Zookeeper for ESB

From colleague Marc Kimpe, I received a link to an introductory Hadoop-As-As-Service article on InfoQ.  One of the things that struck me, was the use of all the other Apache projects that are combined with Hadoop, in particular Zookeeper.

Zookeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.  Yahoo uses Zookeeper to maintain configuration data for its Yahoo! Message Broker (had never heard of it, can't find detailed info on it).

Would any ESB be using Zookeeper?  Yes, AdroitLogic UltraESB and Talend ESB are.  UltraESB for its configuration data.  Talend ESB uses Zookeeper primarily as a Service Locator.

And these 2 ESB's brought me (back) to esbperformance.org, where the performance of open source ESB's is benchmarked.  Unclear how neutral esbperformance.org is, but interesting to see how some ESB's simply fail and how the driver behind the latest execution round - UltraESB - also is the "winner".  From the AdroitLogic website I learn that the company was founded by a number of ex- WSO2 employees.s

If any Flemish students would be interested to do an internship on ESB Performance, take a look at the "I8C stages", and contact me if motivated.