About Integration

Integration is about two kinds of protocols, transport protocol and data protocol.

In spring integration's language, it's inter-application messaging and intra-application messaging.

in camel's language, it's router and adapter.

ESB, supports a wide spectrum of transport protocol like FTP/SOAP/REST/Socket/MQ, and data protocol like XML/JSON/TEXT/Message. With ESB's help, any one want a particular integration instance, he can just configure one based on ESB, don't need to code too much.