services—The point of contact that a service provides for its consumers.

routing—The sources and sinks of messages in a route.

A self-contained object that describes the network contact and policy information for an endpoint, as defined in the WS-Addressing standard.

See Fabric Ensemble.

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), the use of software and architectural principles to integrate disparate enterprise applications.

A collection of patterns describing common EAI problems. For more information see http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/.

Enterprise Management System(EMS), a set of integrated tools that enable system administrators to manage large-scale production environments.

The infrastructure that allows service providers and service consumers to interact in a distributed environment. The bus handles the delivery of messages between different middleware systems, and provides management, monitoring, and mediation services such as routing, service discovery, or transaction processing.

A mechanism that ensures that only one consumer connected to a queue can consume messages.