Chapter 6. Implementing the Enterprise Expansion Joint

“Your compassion,” answered the shrub, “arises from a kind nature; but leave off this care. The winds are less fearful to me than to you. I bend and do not break.”

The Oak and the Reed by Jean de La Fontaine (translation by Eli Siegel)

An Enterprise Expansion Joint for Flexible Integration

The term enterprise expansion joint is appropriate in that flexible enterprise integration often requires more than a simple stateless Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) mediating the input and output of services interactions. A reusable and flexible services layer applying the granularity practices described in previous chapters potentially requires additional handling and adaptation to match the interfaces ...

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