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The Basicexample demonstrates how external 1 applications communicate via the ESB. Similar techniques could be used to plug any external application or service into ServiceMix (e.g. SAP, Peoplesoft, spreadsheets, POJOs, Webservices and EJBs) and allow it to communicate with other external applications or components within ServiceMix itself.

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Please note: There is one caveat with the Basic example: it uses inbound messages via the resource adapter 2 and most legacy 3 applications won't support inbound messaging via the resource adapter.

A common business scenario, which extends the Basic Example, is that of a large department store distributor. This distributor sells products from many wholesalers to many retail outlets (i.e., department stores). The distributor presents a common interface for product ordering to each of its department store customers. However, each wholesaler presents a different ordering interface to the distributor for the product the wholesaler supplies.

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