Enterprise service bus is the most promising new middleware approach. ESB generally refers to integration software that supports simple, expedited, loosely coupled, standards-based, service-oriented ...

As someone who for years has been steeped in the technologies that today are referred to as service-oriented architectures (SOA), I freely admit to thinking on occasion, Why would anyone want an ...

While the concept of an “enterprise service bus” has been floating around for years, it has suddenly become the must-have foundation for service-oriented architecture environments – if you believe the ...

The rise of enterprise service buses is due in part to the service-oriented architecture explosion. Businesses view SOA as a way to reuse software—even legacy apps—as services with loosely coupled ...

A dozen years ago, big-thinking mavericks and contrarian entrepreneurs practically littered the software landscape. But when the big IPO money of the 1990s came and went, came and went, so too did ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. For years the Enterprise Service ...

In his latest analysis published in Application Development Trends, Steve Swoyer discusses a challenge that's often overlooked in SOA discussions: the way members of different parts of the ...

As part of a multifaceted SOA software rollout, IBM on Tuesday is joining the list of companies offering a product labeled as an ESB (enterprise service bus). The comprehensive SOA arsenal unveiled by ...

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Raising its profile in the SOA space, JBoss is readying upgrades to its jBPM (Java Business Process Management) software to support the 1.1 and 2.0 versions of BPEL (Business Process Execution ...

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Sonic Software was one of the first to market with an enterprise service bus (ESB) product. Now the company is nicely positioned to take advantage of that early lead, as more and more companies move ...