Enterprise Service Bus Terminology

Question

Can anyone explain at a beginner-intermediate level the terminology of \"bus\", \"transport\" and \"endpoint\" in the context of an enterprise service bus? I\'m a C# developer

Answer 1

I would recommend looking at resources related to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), which revolves around the ESB and various models and patterns used to integrate solutions. Think of it is a GoF for ESB architectures:

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/

and

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/toc.html

All of these patterns would give you an idea of what people use ESB's to achieve and the patterns are useful for providing common pitfalls of do-it-yourself ESB integration. I've learned an immense amount through that book and through people that source from it.