--- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, if ESB acts as a service of its own, the consumer has to contract with ESB. It would be no problem here unless ESB magically represents service's functionality and RWE, and does it for every service version. Have you heard about such ESBs? Is it realistic to assume such creature at all? (For every service...?) > That would be true if we assume that all SOA functionalities are to be placed in a ESB. Unfortunately, that's unrealistic. ESB are used with other software to provide a solution.
> BTW, an intermediary can transform message in any way it wants w/o sender and receiver knowing about it - full decoupling. > Yes, with the limitation that it has to fulfill the each contract with each provider and consumer. H.Ozawa
