Enterprise Service Bus

[via Phil Wainewright] Bob Sutor writes: “An ESB is something you build for your enterprise or organization to give you the connection architecture you need to meet your IT and business goals. It can be built incrementally from multiple products and it needs to support the performance, reliability, and range of protocols that real, non-toy infrastructures require. If you have enterprise messaging products in place now or are about to install them, you have an ESB and a strong basis for future expansion and use of developing standards.”