Get on the Enterprise Service Bus with the Open Source Mule API
Enterprise service bus is a generic name for any solution that provides communication and translation between applications or between different processes within an application. While Microsoft, IBM, and others have long offered commercial solutions for this integration problem, Mule is one of the first open source APIs. With Mule, data translation is not as hard as you once thought.
by Laurence Moroney
December 23, 2004
nce upon a not-long-ago, Web services were the future killer application that you just had to have a grasp on. While they are a very important part of most architectures nowadays, they aren't actually a magic bullet that helps you integrate your applications or even expose your applications to the rest of the world. The reasons for this are many, including, but not limited to, security, performance, and flexibility.
The next wave in the evolution of the service-oriented architecture or application is the enterprise service bus. It is not a product, nor is it, strictly speaking, a technology. The enterprise service bus is a 'way of doing things'—a 'design pattern' to continue the evolution of standardizing application integration.
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nce upon a not-long-ago, Web services were the future killer application that you just had to have a grasp on. While they are a very important part of most architectures nowadays, they aren't actually a magic bullet that helps you integrate your applications or even expose your applications to the rest of the world. The reasons for this are many, including, but not limited to, security, performance, and flexibility.
