Microsoft is addressing the applications integration issue with a strategy that goes beyond the ESB standard, according to a paper the company has posted. ESB (enterprise service bus) is an emerging standard for integrating enterprise applications in an implementation-independent fashion, at a coarse-grained service level via an event-driven and XML-based messaging engine.
The term is considered a catch-all by some. Recently, in an attempt to develop an open-source Web services framework, companies such as Iona Technologies, WSO2, Infravio Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and Blue Titan Software Inc. teamed up to bring together various projects to deliver what would amount to an open-source ESB.
