CHAPTER 13Enterprise-Level Decoupling with Oracle Service Bus

Chapter 2 introduced Service-Oriented Architecture and stressed the importance of decoupling in order to achieve BAD (Business Agility through Decoupling). In that chapter we also discussed the concept of an enterprise service bus (ESB) as a concept to manage all the connections (including message format and service location) between services and service consumers. The ESB facilitates interactions between potentially very disparate partners—without coupling them in a tight, inflexible manner.

An enterprise service bus in general adapts between the different realms that interacting partners may be living in—for example, in terms of security, physical location, business terminology and ...

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