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The purpose of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), also known as a Java Business Integration (JBI) bus, is to provide a mechanism for different applications to communicate in a protocol neutral manner. ServiceMix is an implemenation of JSR 208, the JBI specification.

The Basic example shows demonstrates how two external 1 applications could communicate to each other via the ServiceMix ESB. The techniques used in the Basic example could be used to integrate any external application with ServiceMix and allow it to communicate with another external application or a component within ServiceMix itself. Examples of applications that need to be accessible to other applications are SAP, Peoplesoft, spreadsheets, POJOs, and EJBs.

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