Ambiguous Use of The Term ESB in Commerce
There is no commonly accepted definition of the term ESB. Most modern providers of Message-oriented middleware have adopted the ESB concept as de facto standard for SOA. Today's implementations of ESB use event-driven and standards-based Message-oriented middleware in combination with message queues as technology frameworks. Unfortunately confusion is occasionally caused by software manufacturers who relabel their existing middleware and communication solutions as ESB without adopting the crucial spirit of a bus concept.
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