Building an Enterprise Service Bus Using WebSphere ESB - Part 1

Overview

Ever since the IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) product became available in December of 2005, the author has been asked how this relates to the solutions described in the earlier papers, which created an ESB based on WebSphere Application Server V6 - or, more specifically, the Service Integration Bus (SIBus) technology in WebSphere Application Server V6. The authors received questions asking what is the relationship (and, respectively, what is the difference) between SIBus and WebSphere ESB, and which technology to use when. Some people simply wondered how they could use the features of WebSphere ESB to deliver the same ESB capabilities the authors described in the articles.