The use of Enterprise Service Bus to transfer large volumes of data

The paper presents an application of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to handle transfer of large volumes of data between IT systems. The use of ESB may affect the reduction of operating costs of the public entity minimizing the number of connections between systems, shortening the time of integration with external systems and increasing the reusability of software written. The design of integration was done according to the ‘1+5’ architectural views model adjusted to the integration solutions description. The previously proposed UML profile UML Profile for Integration Platform has been used. We present the solution, on a specific case study of Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (AFQI) (www.ijhars.gov.pl), showing how fast data can be transferred electronically using an ESB. Finally, benefits of the solution were analysed in the context of the reduced time of data transfer.