IBM Integration Bus Description
IBM® Integration Bus can be used to connect applications together regardless of their message formats or protocols. This connectivity allows your applications to interact with each other and exchange data in a dynamic, flexible, and extensible infrastructure. It supports a wide range of data formats, including binary formats (C, COBOL), XML and industry standards (including SWIFT and EDI). Patterns are reusable solutions that provide a consistent approach to solving a specific architecture, design, deployment task, or other problem in a given context. These patterns can be used as-is or modified to meet your specific needs. Message flows are your application connectivity logic. They describe the exact path your data takes in the integration Node and the processing that is applied by the message nodes in the flow.