Toolkit: Overview of Application Integration Styles and Technologies

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19 April 2007

Jess Thompson

The need for integration is expanding as organizations develop composite applications and pursue initiatives such as SOA and BPM. Each of these can require multiple integration styles. Here, we introduce each style, along with the capabilities and product types required for support.

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The downloadable presentation addresses the following topics:

Slide 1: Overview of Integration Styles and Technologies

Slide 2: The Three Application Integration Styles

Slide 3: What's Needed for Data Consistency Integration

Slide 4: What's Needed for Multistep-Process Integration

Slide 5: What's Needed for Composite-Application Integration

Slide 6: Products: Integration Servers Are Tactical but Useful

Slide 7: Products: Integration Suites and ESBs, Evolving to Support All Integration Styles

Slide 8: Products: Application Platform Suites, Packages for Composite Applications

Slide 9: Product Types: Their Strengths and Weaknesses

Slide 10: Recommendations

Application Integration and Middleware Software
Application Platform Suites
Message-Oriented Middleware
Applications Roles

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