The following scheme visually presents the component-based architecture of the WSO2 ESB.
Transports
WSO2 ESB supports all the widely used transports including HTTP/s, JMS, VFS and domain specific transports like FIX. A new transport can be added easily using the Axis2 transport framework and plug-in to the ESB. Variety of transports brings variety of message content/payload to the ESB.
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