Enterprise Service Bus
The flavour of today in integration architecture is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which is in a way nothing new. The idea of integration via an intermediate model has been around for some time and has led to many disappointments. But maybe this time there is a chance to make it work, since technology has moved on.So what's new? First of all XML has matured to some sort of lingua franca; gradually all players in the market start to support the paradigms of SOAP, XML schema's, message based services, etc. And that means that momentum is building up. Second - the main difference is that everything is loosely coupled and therefore the responsibility for integration is now firmly put at where it belongs - with the applications. With other words - it is not the middle layer that needs to take care of everything, and this may be a factor determining its success.
Labels: architecture, SOA, XML
posted by Evert Ruijs @ 10:27 AM
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