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ALSO CALLED: Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Services Bus
DEFINITION: An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a software architecture for middleware that provides fundamental services for more complex architectures. For example, an ESB incorporates the features required to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In a general sense, an ESB can be thought of as a mechanism that manages access to applications and services (especially legacy versions) to present  … 
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Reliable Messaging Solutions for Retail -How Open Source Software Creates Opportunities in Retail
sponsored by FuseSource
WHITE PAPER: As an alternative to big vendor messaging solutions, open source software presents an entirely different cost model and more flexibility in deployment options that suit the needs of retail perfectly. Read this paper to learn more about open source software and why it is the optimal approach to integrated messaging for large retail enterprises.
Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

FuseSource

Large-Scale Deployments with Servicemix 4
sponsored by FuseSource
WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software.
Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

FuseSource

Transport, Location and Semantics
sponsored by Progress Software
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

Progress Software
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ESB DEFINITION (continued): …  a single, simple, and consistent interface to end-users via Web- or forms-based client-side front ends. In essence, ESB does for distributed heterogeneous back end services and applications and distributed heterogenous front-end users and information consumers what middleware is really supposed to do: hide complexity, simplify access, allow developers to use generic, canonical forms of query, access and interaction, handling the complex details in the background. The key to ESB's appeal, and possibly also its future success, lies in its ability to support incremental service and application integration … 
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