Distributed ESB

[Stefan Klinger]

Hello,

I have been wondering for a while about the notion of a distributed ESB, 
i.e. several separate instances of SM distributed across the world and 
each instance is only aware of local services. However, each instance of 
the SM is aware of the other one, and if it cannot fulfill a routing 
request locally, it contacts the other SM instances it is aware of. The 
rationale behind it is that we would like to run intensive processing 
close to the data. One could extend this notion to a hierarchical master 
and slave model, where the master is in charge of a global workflow, and 
each slave has to run a local workflow on behalf of the master.

Would this be possible with SM? If not, does anybody think it is a good/ 
bad idea to have an architecture like this?

Thanks,
Stefan