Introduction
What is an Enterprise Service Bus?Why PHP?Why Blackbird?Why Not Blackbird?
Getting Started
PrerequisitesDownloading and Installing BlackbirdConfiguring an ESB InstanceRunning and Managing
Developing With Blackbird
Basic TheoryCallback FunctionsProtocol HandlersUsing Sandpiper
Use Cases
Stock Trading Grey BoxWeb Service IntegrationSales Order Integration

Downloads

Blackbird is available in three releases. OK, OK, Development and Stable are the same release at this time, however the nightly build was last updated on August 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 AM

• Nightly - UPDATED! - is the latest development snapshot, assembled nightly. It may (probably will) have bugs, or may not even run properly as-is. - Downloaded 45 times


• Development - is the latest checkpointed development release. It should run out of the box, and contains all the latest functionality, but contains new code that isn't yet well tested. - Downloaded 39 times


• Stable - is a checkpointed release that has been heavily tested and should behave itself. New stable releases will be made only to fix bugs or when Development releases have been thoroughly tested - new functionality will never be added directly to the Stable snapshot. - Downloaded 261 times

wget users please format your request as follows:

Nightly
$ wget 'http://www.blackbirdesb.org/downloads/download.php?f=nightly/blackbird-1.0.3-nightly.tar.gz'

Development
$ wget 'http://www.blackbirdesb.org/downloads/download.php?f=devel/blackbird-1.0.0-devel.tar.gz'

Stable
$ wget 'http://www.blackbirdesb.org/downloads/download.php?f=stable/blackbird-1.0.0-stable.tar.gz'

Without the single quotes around the URL, the file may not download properly using the wget command line interface.

SVN Access

Blackbird will also be available via SVN shortly. Please be patient - we are still in the process of setting up our public SVN service!

Getting Started

Blackbird was designed so that it could be downloaded and run in minutes. We have written a Getting Started guide in the documentation section that will walk you through the process. That's the best place to start if you just want to take it for a test drive.