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There are many vendors that provide ESB solutions, but there is not universal agreement as to the best design or architecture for an ESB. LogicBlaze has implemented the ServiceMix ESB based on the JBI (JSR 208) specification in order to create a standards based ESB. Equally importantly, the ServiceMix ESB combines the functionality of both a Service Oriented Architecture (S0A) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) to achieve an agile, enterprise ESB.

As previously stated, ServiceMix is an open source ESB that is based on the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard. These two factors, open source and open standards-based, allow for low entry cost, maximum flexibility, reuse, and investment protection.

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While decoupled operation (as described in the previous two paragraphs) is more appropriate for the scalability and reliabilty required for high transaction production environments, synchrounous synchronous request/response communication found in early SOA implementations, is also supported. ThereforeThus, ServiceMix effectively combines SOA and EDA for the development and deployment of composite enterprise applications.

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