[esb-dev] Why a message store?

What exactly does this ESB Message Store do? This is what I wrote to kurt in a private email: "BTW, I still think you guys are reimplementing (in a half-ass way) what JBoss Message and JBoss MQ have in a Message Store. If you want an FTP message to be persisted, then: 1) Make the FTP inbound transactional so that it doesn't change the status of the FTP file until tx commit 2) Post a persistent message to a JMS Queue. 3) Do 1 and 2 within a transaction. I don't see anything wrong with using JMS under the covers. It shouldn't be "heavyweight" intra-JVM." Its fine if the ESB team's goal is to write JMS++, but it should be done on top of a messaging solution like JBoss Messaging. I don't see the added value to our users for the ESB team to writing similar functionality to JBoss Messaging. -- Bill Burke JBoss, a division of Red Hat Inc.