Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)—a Research on Key Technologies of Enterprise Integration

Today's enterprise network typically deploys hundreds of applications from different vendors. There's rare standardization of communication protocols between individual enterprise systems, and exchanging data between applications from different vendors is surprisingly hard. The lack of a standard platform for distributed enterprise applications increases the cost and complexity of developing and deploying business solutions. The ESB is a new breed of enterprise middleware designed to alleviate these and other problems. This paper introduces the background, evolving process, researching condition of ESB, and discusses involving standards, architectures, benefits and future development.