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.