Investigating the Potential of Enterprise Service Bus as a Fundamental Facilitator for Future Information Technology Infrastructure

Abstract

The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a new integration infrastructure, and this article comprehensively explains the technology. It discusses the history of EAI and the technologies that form the backbone of an ESB—namely, Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It details an ESB's basics and then presents Mule, an open-source ESB solution. Finally, an example app is provided to show the various benefits that an ESB can provide. Users can apply this framework with the help of ESB solutions, although these products have varying approaches and features. Integrating disparate applications by linking them over a communication bus is central to the ESB design; this bus ensures that each application can talk to it separately without needing to be aware of the presence of the others. Instead of the fragile and difficult-to-manage point-to-point integration, this decoupling of systems allows for more effective communication and eliminates the need for dependent systems