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Summary
An ESB is an important part of a balanced SOA breakfast. I really encourage you to take a
look at what's available and strongly consider incorporating an ESB into your SOA strategy.
Not only will this help you avoid service-to-service integration issues in the future, but the
ESB will serve as a central point of management for your entire SOA infrastructure, including
registry/repository, rules engines, Business Activity Monitoring, connectors and adapters to
legacy systems and packaged applications, orchestration engines, and Business Process Man-
agement solutions.
If you're working on web services in a strategic rather than a purely tactical manner, devel-
oping applications that invoke remote systems in diverse languages, and need to integrate a
variety of systems to present a single unified interface, taking a close look at the ESBs on the
market and in the rich world of open source will help you realize a world of benefits.
Creating web services is only the beginning of implementing a SOA. The second step is to
incorporate an ESB, which will give you the foundation to grow in other important directions.