Apache ESME (in the Attic) (a project managed by the Apache Attic Committee)

Apache ESME (Enterprise Social Messaging Environment) is a secure and highly scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other sources of information, all in a business process context. You can hardly turn a web page these days without seeing a story that describes how people are using social networks, whether it is Twitter, Facebook or some other service to develop and build their personal communities. In business, we increasingly see blogs and wikis demonstrating utility in problem solving and communications but the real time nature of business process problem solving largely remains untouched by social networking tools. Existing services, while attractive do not scale well and have proven unreliable. This is unacceptable to business which must be ‘Always On’ and able to support people in their daily working lives. Such applications must therefore be scalable and reliable but also provide a lot more. When solving problems, how good might it be if a user was able to tap into the collective knowledge of her peers or surrounding groups of people with whom she might naturally network in the workplace setting? How much quicker and with greater precision might she be able to solve daily problems? What if there was a communications mechanism that takes the best of what services like Twitter offers and co-mingled that with readily recognizable business processes? That solution is Apache ESME.

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Apache ESME（Enterprise Social Messaging Environment，企业社交信息环境）是一个安全且高度可扩展的微共享和微消息平台，它允许人们在业务流程上下文中发现和遇见对方，并控制对其他信息源的访问。如今，你几乎不可能在翻开网页的时候看到一个描述人们如何使用社交网络的故事，无论是Twitter、Facebook还是其他一些开发和建立个人社区的服务。在商业领域，我们越来越多地看到博客和wiki在解决问题和通信方面展示了实用性，但业务流程问题解决的实时性在很大程度上仍然没有受到社交网络工具的影响。现有的服务虽然很有吸引力，但规模并不大，而且已经证明是不可靠的。这是不可接受的商业必须’永远在’和能够支持人们的日常工作生活。因此，这样的应用程序必须是可伸缩和可靠的，但也提供了更多。在解决问题时，如果一个用户能够利用同龄人或周围人群的集体知识，而她在工作环境中可能会与这些人建立自然的人际关系，这会有多好？她能更快更精确地解决日常问题吗？如果有一种通信机制，它充分利用了Twitter等服务的优点，并将其与易于识别的业务流程结合起来呢？这个解决方案是Apache ESME。