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How Integrations have Progressed 1990 - 2000s (ERPs, Java , Dot Net, RPCs) Couple of decades ago, when data has to flow from one system to another, we will do three things, we will take source system as origin point, destination system as another point and develop the data mapping. We call these kinds of integrations as point to point. Symbolically, you as data is going from Station A to Station B by a train medium. Mulesoft realized that there is lot of donkey work , and it can be handled by pre-built configuration and incubated an open source ESB project on spring framework, MULE ESB. 2000 - 2010 (SOAP, WSDL, XML, SOA) Sometimes, in first half of 2000, SOAP protocol provided standardized approach to Interface through WSDL definition, and architects applied patterns like SOA, ESB, PUB-SUB to create layered services and data started flowing from multiple sources to multiple destinations. Symbolically you as data is going from Station A to Station B through a junction by tra...