Application and data integration represent the greatest challenge to modern companies. Building an Enterprise Service Bus is the fastest and most profitable way of meeting this challenge. Information in this document represents a basis for creating an information system based on services.
Referent ESB architecture
Using the web service through Internet or Intranet, a great number of access points in the information system architecture are created. Managing and maintaining a great number of access points is extremely difficult. Organizations that use many services and strive to service oriented architecture, have to ensure a reliable communication infrastructure, intelligent redirecting, and interaction between services.
Application servers enable connection pooling, managing transactions, managing object lifecycle, and therefore enable development of new applications. Similarly, EBS ensures standard communication and integration. EBS uses industrial standards for majority of functionalities and in that way ensures independence from a platform and interoperability of different systems.
ESB is not a new software product but a manner, a way towards an application integration, resource coordination and information management. ESB, as opposed to other approaches to integration and interoperability of distributed application systems (e.g. RPC), connects applications that are executed paralelly on different platforms, written in different programming languages using different programming models.
