Overview[1]#

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a Software Architecture Model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service-oriented Architecture (SOA).

As a Software Architecture Model for Distributed system computing it is a specialty variant of the more general Client-server Software Architecture Model and promotes agility and flexibility with regards to communication and interaction between applications. Its primary use is in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) of heterogeneous and complex landscapes.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• BUS
• ESB
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Enterprise Service Bus
• Message-oriented Middleware
• Microservice
• Smart endpoints and dumb pipes

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• [#1] - enterprise service bus - based on 2013-11-04