"weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : Librados provides this sort of JCA based connectivity (FTP/SMTP). They are a semi-partner of ours | | IMO any ESB should be nothing more than a core kernel/messaging bus and then a ton of adapters. | | Think Mach kernel with everything else in user space :-) | | BTW, our ESB is a SOA infrastructure too. That impacts the model because you can have an ESB that fits your description and is entirely based around distributed objects, fine grained method invocations, closely coupled interactions and (implicitly) short duration flows. We definitely don't want to do that, because that's pretty much where ESBs were 3 years ago and things have moved on a lot since then. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4029097#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...