Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Interoperability Standards

Level: Introductory

Contributors: IBM

19 Jun 2008

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Read about the concepts and capabilities of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the standards that deliver the value of an ESB in a heterogeneous environment.

Introduction to the white paper

A number of key standards related to ESB interoperability exist today. This white paper (see below) outlines the specific standards used to achieve ESB interoperability. These include the standards for message transfer (HTTP and HTTPS), message formats and protocols (SOAP), and identity or location (WS-Addressing). In this white paper, you see a number of scenarios that illustrate how you can use a standards-based approach to satisfy specific customer use-case requirements. Finally, the white paper explains the relationship with existing WS-I profiles and the work necessary to define additional profiles related to ESB.

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Resources

• Participate in the discussion forum.
  
  
• Learn more about the key concepts of an ESB by reading the IBM Systems Journal article, "The Enterprise Service Bus: Making service-oriented architecture real."
  
  
• Get a general overview of the ESB by reading "SOA programming model for implementing Web services, Part 4: An introduction to the IBM Enterprise Service Bus" (developerWorks, Jul 2005).
  
  
• Read more about how the SOA Foundation relates to ESB in the article, "Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 1: Discover how an ESB can help you meet the requirements for your SOA solution" (developerWorks, Apr 2007).
  
  
• Standards roadmap -- understand the impact and importance of standards and specifications for the development of SOA and Web services.
  

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