WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.0.1
Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
WebSphere ESB
This section of the tour describes the different parts of WebSphere ESB.
Service requesters and providers
In an enterprise service bus,
applications that require the services of another application are known as service
requesters. Correspondingly applications which offer services are called service
providers.
Mediation modules
As a request travels between service requesters and
providers, logic that controls what happens to it and how it is routed (often
known as the mediating or service interaction logic) can be inserted. This
mediating logic is performed by mediation modules, which are
made up of imports, exports, and flow components
Application Server
Mediation modules must be deployed on a WebSphere ESB-enabled
application server.