Exploiting Concurrency for the ESB Architecture

Enterprise service bus (ESB) is currently the most promising approach for business application integration in distributed and heterogeneous environments. Several commercial or open source ESB-based solutions have been proposed. To the best of our knowledge, none of these solutions has integrated the parallel processing by taking advantage of the multicore/multiprocessor technologies and thus improving greatly the ESB performance. In this paper, after describing the most important features of an enterprise service bus, we present a new massively parallel ESB (MPESB) architecture that meets this challenge.