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Enterprise Service Bus

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ESB; Service bus

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The enterprise service bus (ESB) is a key architectural pattern in the larger architectural pattern called service-oriented architecture (SOA). The ESB supplies loosely coupled connectivity between service requesters and service providers in service-oriented solutions. Loose coupling permits a clean separation of concerns (temporal, technological, and organizational) between the parts in a solution, enabling flexibility and agility in both business processes and IT systems.

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SOA is perhaps the latest stage in the continuing evolution of distributed computing. SOA inherits many principles form earlier stages of distributed computing. Client/server introduced the notion of less monolithic application architectures. Distributed objects focused on smaller-grained function and introduced encapsulated behavior and well-defined interfaces. Web services focused on the use of standards to enhance interoperability. SOA brings a strong...

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  1. An introduction to the IBM enterprise service bus. Available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-progmodel4/index.html. July, 2005

  2. Discover how an ESB can help you meet the requirements for your SOA solution. Available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/architecture/library/ar-esbpat1/. April, 2007

  3. Enterprise service bus. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus. September, 2008

  4. The enterprise service bus: making service-oriented architecture real. Available at: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/sj/444/schmidt.html. 2005

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Flurry, G. (2018). Enterprise Service Bus. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1178

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