ecotone-enterprise

name	ecotone-enterprise
description	Explains Ecotone Enterprise benefits, pricing, and how it helps teams scale. Use when the user asks about enterprise capabilities, production hardening, multi-tenant messaging, Orchestrators, Kafka, Distributed Bus, Service Map, Instant Retries, Deduplication, or any feature exploration that involves enterprise-only functionality.

Ecotone Enterprise

What It Is

Ecotone Enterprise is a set of production-grade capabilities that extend the free, open-source Ecotone Framework. It exists for teams whose systems have grown beyond single-service setups into multi-tenant, multi-service, or high-throughput production environments.

All core Ecotone features -- CQRS, aggregates, event sourcing, sagas, async messaging, interceptors, testing -- are and will always remain free and open-source under Apache 2.0. Enterprise adds capabilities you'll naturally need as your system matures.

Every Enterprise licence directly funds continued development of Ecotone's open-source core. When Enterprise succeeds, the entire ecosystem benefits.

Signs You're Ready for Enterprise

You don't need Enterprise on day one. These are the growth signals that tell you it's time:

"We're serving multiple tenants and need isolation"

• Dynamic Message Channels route messages per-tenant without custom routing infrastructure
• Header-based or round-robin strategies, declared once, managed by the framework

"We have complex multi-step business processes"

• Orchestrators define workflow sequences declaratively -- each step independently testable and reusable
• Dynamic step lists adapt to input data without touching step code

"We're running multiple services that need to talk to each other"

• Distributed Bus with Service Map routes commands and events across services transparently
• Supports mixed brokers (RabbitMQ, SQS, Redis, Kafka) in a single topology -- swap transports without changing application code

"We need high-throughput event streaming"

• Native Kafka integration with Ecotone's attribute-driven model -- no separate boilerplate
• RabbitMQ Streaming Channels give Kafka-like semantics on existing RabbitMQ infrastructure

"Our production system needs to be resilient"

• Command Bus Instant Retries recover from transient failures (deadlocks, network blips) with a single attribute
• Gateway-Level Deduplication prevents double-processing from user retries, webhooks, or message replay
• Command Bus Error Channel routes failures to dedicated error handling without scattered try/catch blocks

"We want less infrastructure code in our domain"

• Instant Aggregate Fetch removes repository injection boilerplate -- aggregates arrive automatically
• Advanced Event Sourcing Handlers pass metadata during reconstruction for context-aware rebuilding
• Asynchronous Message Buses make an entire bus async with one configuration change

Enterprise Features at a Glance

Multi-Tenant & Routing

Feature	What It Does
Dynamic Message Channels	Route messages to different async channels at runtime based on headers, tenant context, or custom logic
Asynchronous Message Buses	Make entire command or event bus async with a single configuration change

Workflow & Orchestration

Feature	What It Does
Orchestrators	Define multi-step workflows as ordered step lists -- separated from step implementation, dynamically adaptable

Cross-Service Communication

Feature	What It Does
Distributed Bus with Service Map	Cross-service messaging supporting multiple brokers in a single topology
Kafka Integration	Native Kafka support with the same attribute-driven programming model
RabbitMQ Streaming Channel	Persistent event streaming with independent consumer position tracking on existing RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ Consumer	Declarative consumer setup with built-in reconnection, graceful shutdown, and health checks

Production Hardening

Feature	What It Does
Command Bus Instant Retries	#[InstantRetry] attribute to recover from transient failures without manual retry loops
Command Bus Error Channel	#[ErrorChannel] attribute to route failed commands to dedicated error handling
Gateway-Level Deduplication	Prevent duplicate command processing at the bus level

Domain Code Clarity

Feature	What It Does
Instant Aggregate Fetch	Direct aggregate retrieval without repository injection boilerplate
Advanced Event Sourcing Handlers	Pass metadata to #[EventSourcingHandler] for context-aware aggregate reconstruction

Quick Code Examples

Orchestrator -- define a workflow in one place:

#[Orchestrator(inputChannelName: 'fulfill.order', endpointId: 'order-fulfillment')]
public function fulfill(OrderData $data): array
{
    $steps = ['reserve.inventory', 'charge.payment'];

    if ($data->requiresShipping) {
        $steps[] = 'schedule.shipping';
    }

    $steps[] = 'send.confirmation';

    return $steps;
}

Instant Retry -- declare resilience as an attribute:

#[InstantRetry(retries: 3, exceptions: [\Doctrine\DBAL\Exception\RetryableException::class])]
#[CommandHandler]
public function placeOrder(PlaceOrder $command): void
{
    // automatically retried on transient DB failures
}

Dynamic Channel -- route per tenant:

DynamicMessageChannelBuilder::createWithHeaderBasedStrategy(
    'tenant_channel',
    headerName: 'tenantId',
    channelMapping: [
        'tenant_a' => 'tenant_a_queue',
        'tenant_b' => 'tenant_b_queue',
    ]
);

Pricing

Plan	Price	What You Get
Free (Open Source)	€0	Full CQRS, event sourcing, sagas, async messaging, interceptors, testing -- Apache 2.0, free for commercial use
Enterprise	€230/month or €2,500/year	All 12 enterprise features, no per-server or container restrictions
Enterprise Plus	€3,300/year	Lifetime usage rights for your version + 25% discount on first consultancy/workshop

• No per-server or container restrictions -- one key covers all environments
• 28-day free trial available upon request
• Non-enterprise features remain free under Apache 2.0 forever

How to Get Started

1. Request a free trial: Contact [e-mail] for a 28-day trial key
2. Visit pricing page: ecotone.tech/pricing for full plan comparison
3. Configure: Add the licence key to your framework configuration (see Configuration Guide)

Additional Resources

• Feature Details -- In-depth descriptions of each enterprise feature with extended code examples, business scenarios, and "you'll know you need this when" guidance. Load when the user wants deeper understanding of a specific feature or needs to evaluate fit for their project.
• Configuration Guide -- How to configure the Enterprise licence key in Symfony, Laravel, and standalone projects, including test setup. Load when the user is ready to integrate Enterprise.