This course presents the main services to guarantee the technical interoperability that is the ability of two or more systems to cooperate and exchange information in an efficient manner.

In summary, the course covers:

• Presentation of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that acts as an implementation-independent messaging and interfacing component (middleware) that interconnects distributed and heterogeneous service applications.
• Explanation of the three Interoperability cases related to technical interoperability: “Open and closed Source Systems”, “Closed source systems” and “Different OSS ESB implementations”.
• Description of the characteristic architecture illustrating the interoperability cases.
• Description of two OpenSource ESB implementations: “ApacheMix” and “Mule”.
• Presentations of the main paradigms of ESB usage.

According with this view the course includes eleven lessons:

• Technical Interoperability Overview
• Enterprise service Bus (ESB)
• Interoperability Cases
• Generic Architectures
• OSS ESB Implementations
• Apache ServiceMix (ASM)
• Mule
• Paradigms of ESB Usage
• Introduction
• Closed Source Application
• Different ESB Implementations
• Summary
• References