Steve Vinoskiis back!!! Although we still don’t know much about his new venture. Check out this post that highlights Steve’s opinion about the ESB vs. REST + dynamic languages debate.
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Hi,
Isn't this repeated all the time. OOPs, CORBA, SAS, SOAP, ...the list is endless.
I think it boils down to level of abstraction and coupling. ESBs have adapters that abstract for those that do not want to deal with the complexity of Ws-* and SOAP. These adapters can also handle the basic REST scenarios with no custom code.
One problem with some of the WS-* and SOAP abstractions is that they are leaky abstractions that do not completely hide the details of implementation. WCF is a good start but its too early in its maturity curve.