How Many Adapters Equal an ESB?

The article reports on the release of the iWay Service Manager enterprise service bus (ESB) from iWay Software. iWay produces application adapters, those pieces of software that hook enterprise applications to middleware from the likes of BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sonic, and Sun. Jake Freivald, vice president of product marketing for iWay, says that the catch-all ESB moniker has changed to mean middleware that offers transformations, intelligent message routing, distributed architecture, message transport, and support for standards.