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JBI is an architecture for integration systems specifying plug-in components that interoperate by exchanging messages, rather than by interacting directly. This decoupling increases flexibility because each component needs to know how to interact with the JBI bus only and not with n number of other components. JBI components provide services, consume services, or sometimes both. There are two types of components: Service Engines (SE) and Binding Components (BC). The SEs provide business logic and transformation services. The BCs provide connectivity for applications that are external to the JBI. The separation of business and processing logic from communication logic makes the implementation of components much easierless complex.

The mediated message exchange between components is provided by the Normalized Message Router (NMR). The NMR routes normalized messages between service providers and consumers. A normalized message consists of two parts: the message content (payload) and the message metadata. The message metadata contains information such as security information, that can affect the processing of the message as it routes through the JBI. Messages flowing into the JBI, via binding components, are translated into a normalized (neutral) format, then routed to their destination. Prior to final delivery the normalized message is translated into the appropriate format for the recipient. A message can be routed through several JBI components depending on what processing is needed.

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ServiceMix supports event driven architecture for events occurring both internal and external to the bus. In other words, JMS binding components can listen for the arrival of messages, i.e., the "event" on topics or queues which are external to the bus, while other binding components and service engine components can listen for
messages on the bus.

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 request/response communication found in early SOA implementations, is also supported. Therefore, ServiceMix effectively combines SOA and EDA for the development and deployment of composite enterprise applications.

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