JMS and ESB - how they are related?

Question

For me JMS and ESB seem to be very related things and I\'m trying to understand how exactly they are related.

I\'ve seen a sentence that JMS can be used as a transpo

Answer 1

• An addition to the above list is the latest Open Source ESB - UltraESB

JMS is not well suited for the integration of REST services, File systems, S/FTP, Email, Hessian, SOAP etc. which are better handled with an ESB that supports these types natively. For example, if you have a process that dumps a CSV file of 500MB at midnight, and you want another system to pickup the file, parse CSV and import into a database, this can easily be accomplished by an ESB - whereas a solution with just JMS will be bad. Similarly, integration of REST services, with load balancing/failover to multiple backend instances can be done better with an ESB supporting HTTP/S natively.