The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a technology that is being readily adopted
within IT organizations across a variety of industries. An ESB provides a
standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data
transformation, and intelligent routing in an event-driven Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA). ESBs are being used to solve real-world integration
challenges in many unique ways, as we will explore throughout this book.
Enterprise Service Bus contains practical strategies for understanding the
architecture of an ESB while integrating diverse applications into
enterprise-wide solutions. Throughout the book, there are integration patterns
that show how an ESB can be applied toward solving today's application
integration challenges. These strategies and