[Podcast] Can We Do Away with Services and Just Leave the Messaging?

Ask Udi Podcast – Udi Dahan – The Software Simplist

This week we have a comment from a fellow SOA blogger, Jack van Hoof:

ESB’s are a lot about messaging and therefore a better name might be “Enterprise Data Bus”. It’s the asynchronous messaging that needs such an infrastructure with persistency and mediation facilities. All the WS-* standards are about messaging as well, leveraging the message itself to tell the infrastructure how it has to be handled.

I think WS-* will make it possible to have the ESB evolve from a vendor-product to a concept implemented in the operating systems an network devices that understand WS-*. Then you can leave the prefix “Enterprise” and we will be ready for an univeral asynchronous data bus over the Internet (or any other network you like). This will help breaking the current “services centric” idea of SOA into a “messages centric” perspective.

What are your thoughts?

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Additional References:

• Podcast on if you need an ESB for SOA
• Podcast on Enterprise Service Discovery
• Blog post on ESBs as a global dataspace
• Blog post about what the brave new world of WS-* brings us

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