Methods and tools for data and software integration- Enterprise Service Bus

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is one of the integration patterns and it is closely related to Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and to business integration. It is important to know the functionalities and the possibilities of ESB when we are thinking of its usage in the organization. In the following paper there is described the role of ESB in SOA. Architecture and common integration patterns which are closely related to ESB and its usage in enterprise integration are introduced. There are extended architectural principles for service design and there are shown the possibilities of the messaging framework which can provide additional features to ESB