Organizations that are able to integrate their applications and data sources have a distinct competitive advantage: strategic utilization of company data and technology for greater efficiency and profit. But IT managers attempting integration face daunting challenges--disparate legacy systems; a hodgepodge of hardware, operating systems, and networking technology; proprietary packaged applications; and more.
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) offers a solution to this increasingly urgent business need. It encompasses technologies that enable business processes and data to speak to one another across applications, integrating many individual systems into a seamless whole.
Enterprise Application Integration provides a comprehensive examination of EAI. You will find an overview of EAI goals and approaches, a review of the technologies that support it, and a roadmap to implementing an EAI solution. You will also find an in-depth explanation of the four major types of EAI: data-level, application interface-level, method-level, and user interface-level. The book describes in detail the middleware models and technologies that support these different approaches, including:
* Application servers, including the use of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and ActiveX
* Message-oriented middleware (MOM) and remote procedure calls (RPCs)
* Distributed objects, looking at CORBA and COM
* Database-oriented middleware and standards, including ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB
* Java middleware standards
* Message brokers
* New process automation and workflow technology
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