Microsoft ESB
Will there be a Microsoft ESB? Joe McKendrick is speculating that Microsoft has changed its position on ESBs. The current position is to completely ignore them. Microsoft is now openly talking about ESBs - which is completely different to its previous tactic of completely ignoring them. In the same article, Joe McKendrick points to Loek Bakker's weblog, which has some very negative things to say about the future of ESBs.
So are things going well for the ESB market or not? Does it have a future or is it a transitionary technology?
That probably all depends on how ESBs fit in with Service Component Architecture. And it's looking good, considering how many ESB vendors are also support the OSOA collaboration.
It is very interesting that the comments about ESBs and Microsoft come at the same time that JBoss has announced support for ESBs. However, what is more interesting is that JBoss has also said that it's hoping to implement Service Component Architecure in the longer term - which sort of indicates that it considers ESBs to be a transitionary technology.
PJ Murray
CodeFutures Software