Thursday 9 January 2014

Advantages and Features of OSB



When to use OSB:
  • Endpoint routing (providing location transparency) so that we do not care about the physical location of the endpoint.
  • Endpoint abstraction (interface transparency) so that we do not care about the exact data formats required by the endpoint because the OSB will take care of transformations.
  • Load balancing so that we do not care about which of multiple service implementations will actually service a request. 
  • Throttling so that we do not care about how use of services is restricted.  
  • Enrichment so that we do not care about how additional data is provided to the request to match the expected request and response formats.
  • Simple synchronous composition so that we do not care if our abstract service call is actually made up of two or more physical service calls.
  • Protocol conversion so that we do not care what physical transports are being used.
  • Sync/async abstraction so that we can treat services as fire and forget or query response according to the needs of the client.