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

Prerequisites

To run a Blackbird, your environment must have the following dependencies installed:

Required:

• PHP >= v5.16 (Download) with:
  • MCrypt
  • XSL
  • Dev
    
• Zend Framework >= v1.0 (Download)

Recommended:

• Apache HTTPD >= v2.2 (Download)
• MySQL >= v5.0 (Download)
• ActiveMQ (Download)
• The following PECL Packages: (Info)
  • PDO
  • PDO_MySQL

Optional:

• Smarty (Download) - Required to run the e-mail sender sample object, which uses Smarty to fill in e-mail body templates
• The following PEAR Modules: (Info)
  • QuickForm - Required to run the Web interface for the SOAP sample object