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So.. SOA.

Everyone is doing it, but I never see details about how the services are wired together.

Do people use ESBs, or directly wire up services to each other?

[threeseed]

Services are generally using HTTP/REST these days.

[nl]

Yes. Most (all?) ESBs support (and indeed encourage) REST.

I'm pretty sure there has never been an ESB that doesn't support HTTP.

My question is if people are actually using them to wire system together (outside corporate environments, where considerations are different).