Is this thinking accurate on ESB vs. REST-styled interfaces?

Question

To tie together various legacy applications, some mainframe-based, I'm trying to compare using an ESB like MQSeries, a WS-* approach, or something more RESTful.

Is there much substance to the idea that writing the interface to REST, instead of MQ or even WS-*, may have a secondary benefit of also taking us closer to web-enabling portions of the apps (for use by humans with browsers)?

Answer 1

Applications have been web-enabled for years before REST bacame a fad, and will do for years to come. I don't see much of a relationship between the two.

BTW, I didn't think of MQSeries as having to do with ESB - it's just a message queueing system, largely equivalent to MSMQ.