An enterprise service bus (ESB) is a centralized, logical, architectural component that operates in a distributed, heterogeneous environment to facilitate the requirements of a highly scalable, ...

An interesting phenomenon is becoming apparent in the service-oriented architecture products space, and it is related to the growing gap between longtime vendors such as Tibco and Oracle and newer ...

With Java application servers rapidly becoming a commodity item, it’s no surprise that we’re now beginning to see open source implementations of other elements of the enterprise middleware stack. In ...

You may have read earlier articles in which I discussed the service-oriented architecture generation gap: the divergence between SOA solutions that have evolved from earlier application integration ...

Gartner Inc. recently predicted that more than half of all large enterprises will have at least the core of an enterprise service bus (ESB) running by the end of 2006. There are, however, several ...