Sonic ESB is an enterprise service bus that simplifies the integration and flexible reuse of business components using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Free of the inflexible and costly customization required by other middleware technologies, Sonic ESB lets architects dynamically configure the reliable connection, mediation and control of services and their interactions. Sonic ESB spans clusters and security infrastructures to form a federated environment which can be managed from any point. Configurable service interaction eliminates hard-wired dependencies, so Sonic ESB makes it easy to deploy initial projects and, without disruptive recoding, swiftly evolve, scale, and extend them throughout the enterprise. On the Sonic ESB, all connected resources—whether a J2EE application, Web service, or legacy message broker—are first-class citizens. These services are broadly available for dynamically-configured interaction with other services. Services can be scaled, moved or upgraded without disturbing other running services. Sonic ESB also offers robust, scalable and secure communications that seamlessly link services and processes across the extended enterprise. Sonic's exclusive Continuous Availability ArchitectureTM (CAA) provides availability and transactional fault tolerance, eliminating the operational risk of lost data without requiring specialized hardware. Sonic ESB provides the foundation of the Sonic SOA SuiteTM, a bundled product offering that delivers deployment flexibility and simplicity for organizations pursuing SOA projects. A cohesive solution to the challenges of broad-scale business event and process management, Sonic SOA Suite lets you dynamically manage, mediate and orchestrate services in a unified SOA framework. Joining enterprise-wide operational visibility with the flexibility to adapt to changing requirements, Sonic SOA Suite helps align IT with the needs of business.