Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

In the past several years there have been serveral technologies attempting to solve to this problem such as Enterprise Applicaton
Integration (EAI), Business-to-Business (B2B), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Web Services. These solutions addressed some of the integration issues, but were mostly proprietary, expensive, and time-consuming to implement.

The ESB solves the integration problem without the flaws of the other solutions. The purpose of an ESB is to facilitate application and process integration by providing distributed processing, intelligent routing, security, and dynamic data transformation. In an ESB these services are provided so each application does not have to address these issues independently and in a proprietary manner; these are standard infrastructure services in an ESB.

...