In this article, Adrien Louis and Marc Dutoo discuss the differences and relative merits of using orchestration vs. routing in a typical ESB setup, and discuss various implementation options.

Analysts tend to talk about ESB architecture or implementation patterns--products seem less important. The components that are considered part of ESB's vary considerably by analyst.

Bobby Woolf questions, with humor, the use of an ESB-Oriented Architecture approach when building a Service Oriented Architecture. This is an age old question that's worth revisiting in the light ...

Progress Software's Sonic Software division is weighing up offering its enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture and reference model as the basis for an industry standard.Sonic published a ...

An ESB is a standards-based, service-oriented backbone capable of connecting hundreds of application endpoints. ESBs combine messaging, Web services, XML, data transformation and management to ...

I’m getting a number of e-mails about this whole ESB/Architecture thing, and a number of good responding posts. Just backing up a bit, there are two issues here really. First, that there is a ...

I found this little goodie today from IBM, I had to read it twice. "An increasingly common request from clients is to complete a project that does not use service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a ...

This brief survey, distributed by BriefingsDirectfor Interarbor Solutions, is designed to gauge the latest perceptions and patterns of use and updated requirements for middleware products and ...

While the concept of an "enterprise service bus" has been floating around for years, it has suddenly become the must-have foundation for service-oriented architecture environments - if you believe ...