Chapter 15

Answer 1

The point-to-point integration of the enterprise applications requires a connector to be built for every pair of applications that needs to integrate. This creates a complex infrastructure that can be hard to manage as well as scale if new applications are introduced into the environment.

Answer 2

The enterprise service bus is responsible for helping different services inside an infrastructure connect to each other through the use of message-passing mechanisms. The ESB provides connectors for the applications through which the applications can connect...