Mulesource CEO Dave Rosenberg maintains that service-oriented architecture (SOA) requires some technology for its implementation and that the enterprise service bus (ESB) is a central component in that technology design, enabling easy integration and greater reusability of service components.
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The topics Rosenberg touches upon include:
- Why he believes the ESB is the foundation for an SOA
- Integration vs. service mediation
- What an ESB shouldn't do
- Why an ESB should have a small footprint
- Why SOA needs to concern itself with applications outside the Web services sphere
- Whether users are deploying ESBs tactically or strategically
- The scale and scope of SOA projects he's encountering
- Why he thinks services assembly capabilities need to precede BPM and governance intiatives
- Open source SOA vs. the traditional commercial software approach
