Published: 05 October 2007
Summary
Enterprise service bus (ESB) refers to the latest generation of the integration software market. Unfortunately, consistency is not a feature of this market. One can compare two products sporting the moniker "ESB" and find very little in common. In this Application Platform Strategies Technology & Standards document, Burton Group Vice President and Research Director Anne Thomas Manes discusses the features and capabilities typically found in an ESB and provides a framework for comparing and assessing products.
Included in Full Research
- What Is an ESB?
- Disparate Definitions
- Related Product Categories
- So What Is an ESB?
- ESB as the Next Generation Application Platform
- Evaluating ESBs
- Architecture
- Features
- Standards Support
- Playing Well with Others
- Existing Deployments
- Licensing Terms
- Recommendations
- Recognize the Value and Limitations of an ESB
- Don't Waste Time Trying to Pick One “Universal” ESB
- Consider Upgrading Older Systems to ESB Equivalents
- Beware of ESB Vendor Lock-In Strategies
- ESB Definition
- Latest Generation of EAI
- ESB Product Features
- Positioning ESB Within a SOA Infrastructure
- Standards That Apply to ESBs
- HTTP and REST
- Java Message Service
- Web Services Framework
- Business Process Execution Language
- Service Component Architecture
- Java Business Integration