Enterprise Service Bus

Preface

Welcome to Enterprise Service Bus. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Being part of a new technology evolution is very exciting, and now that you are beginning to explore the concept of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), you can become a part of it, too. The ESB provides a highly distributed, event-driven Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that combines Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), web services, intelligent routing based on content, and XML data transformation. ESBs are being used to solve integration challenges in many unique ways, as we will explore throughout this book.

About This Book

Over the past few years, I (along with many of my coworkers) have had the invaluable opportunity of working closely with IT professionals who were trying to build or buy something like an ESB. As part of the research for this book, I met, spoke with, and interviewed many IT leaders across a variety of industries to gain an understanding of their integration challenges, and of how they are applying ESB integration concepts to uniquely solve them. The concepts in this book draw from that experience.

This book represents a new direction for O’Reilly books. It is the first of a new “Enterprise Series” of books from O’Reilly. This book is targeted to integration architects, project managers, CIOs, CTOs, and basically anyone who has a need to integrate applications and who understands the bigger picture of the integration issues within their IT organization. ...