It's a classic conflict: Developers focused on a project and facing deadline pressure want to use a lightweight enterprise service bus (ESB), while enterprise architects have to look at the long-term impact on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
However, the two sides do not have to come to grief if architects ask the right questions about the lightweight ESB, according to analysts at Forrester Research Inc. A new Forrester report with the hopeful title "Learn How To Embrace Lightweight ESBs: Lightweight ESBs Should Be An Option Within Your SOA Strategy," suggests a way for both sides to get what they want.
