The quest for agility has spurred the recent rise of Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and the face of modern IT integration architecture is
changing. Technology stovepipes of the past are now being connected by
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology, which provides the backbone for the
networking, communication, mediation, and service container management needed
to support an SOA. Every integration software vendor provides some form of
ESB in its products and the ESB has risen to the status of a de facto
standard for SOA integrating. But what's the next step in the evolution of
the IT integration fabric?
The next step is a new class of software called event-stream processing, or
ESP. ESP has been hailed as the "next big thing" by both software vendors and
analysts ... (more)
As Web services technology begins to impact business process management (BPM)
and application-to-application integration, a question arises: "What business
and technical challenges will we face applying Web services technology to BPM
and application integration?" This article presents the seven dominant
principles of good Web services design. The principles are based on 15 years
of softw... (more)
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