Speeding up data access in SOA

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm that can be used to build complex enterprise architectures enabling clients with needs and servers with capabilities to interact via services across disparate platforms, technologies, and ownership domains. An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which is the most common realization of a SOA, enables smooth operation among diverse Enterprise Applications. However, this agility and scalability of SOA comes at a price on performance. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to characterize the performance of SOA in the presence of an ESB and provide a framework for performance tuning