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Is an Enterprise Service Bus (a tool that acts as a mediator, a message broker, a service enabler, schema transformation enhancer, transparent location provider, service aggregator, load balancer, monitor, and all that stuff) responsible to orchestrate services ? What about putting an automated business business process with more than thousand steps and dozens of service invocations inside your enterprise service bus? Would you do it, or would you use a specialist in orchestration such as a BPEL engine? Please gimme you opinion. Yes and no. There's a thin, and sometimes indistinguishable line