Yea, its sad cause you have this cool middleware that can do so many things with the whole EIP theory and all the premade plugins.
What is eating this guys lunch really? and I think there is a void there somewhere thats not nicely filled currently. Some pain points that are exposed because of its demise. Thoughts?
This is very unfortunate because I think we still need a way to do cross service mediation, process orchestration, etc.
That said, you will not see any new deployments utilizing an ESB. The fact that all open-source ESB projects are essentially abandon ware tells you all you need to know.