Enterprise application integration

The modeling and design methodology for SOA applications has become known by the terms service-oriented analysis and design and SODA. The SOA functions as much as a software development framework as it does as a delivery framework. In order for a SOA environment to operate successfully, software developers need to orient themselves to its mindset of creating common services which clients or middleware then orchestrate to implement processes. Development of systems using the SOA requires ...

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Service-oriented architecture, Service-oriented architecture - SOA definitions, Service-oriented architecture - SOA and business architecture, Service-oriented architecture - SOA design and development, Service-oriented architecture - Why SOA?, Service-oriented architecture - Products, Service-oriented architecture - Footnotes, Service-oriented architecture - Literature

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Integration may be any of the following: In the most general sense, integration may be any bringing together of things: the integration of two or more economies, cultures, religions (usually called syncretism), etc. In mathematics, integration, which is a concept of calculus, is the process of finding integrals. In mathematics, indefinite integration refers to antidifferentiation. Racial integration can mean desegregation, but more properly refers to social and ...

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The standard consists of six parts: Part 1 - Framework Part 2 - Classification Part 3 - Registry metamodel and basic attributes Part 4 - Formulation of data definitions Part 5 - Naming and identification principles Part 6 - Registration Part 1 explains the purpose of each part. Part 3 specifies the metamodel that defines the registry. The ...

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ISO/IEC 11179, ISO/IEC 11179 - Strategic nature, ISO/IEC 11179 - Structure of an ISO Metadata Registry, ISO/IEC 11179 - Structure of ISO Documentation, ISO/IEC 11179 - Extensions to the ISO/IEC 11179 Standard, ISO/IEC 11179 - Examples of ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries, ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata Registry Vendor Tools

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The infra results from of a set of standards. The standards are used by information companies to offer an online databse application system that enables enterprises to achieve business process interoperability ("BPI"). Companies use an enormous number of business processes in their day-to-day-operations. Some processes reside within a single enterprise, but most involve external parties, such as customers, suppliers and business partners. An order received by a company, for example, can trigger a great many tasks internally and across ...

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Universal Enterprise Infrastructure, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Summary, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Description, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Standards, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Practical uses, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Why it's being built now

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Although similar in concept to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), an EMS places emphasis on design of messaging protocols, not the implementation of the services using a specific technology such as web services or Java Message Service. Note that an Enterprise Messaging System should not be confused with an electronic mail system used for delivering human readable text messages to individual people. An example of a specific application programming interface (API) that implements an Enterprise Messaging System is the Java Message Service (JMS). Although this is an API it embodies ...

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Enterprise Messaging System, Enterprise Messaging System - Separation of Message Header and Message Body, Enterprise Messaging System - Comparisons

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The primary advantage of a message based communications protocol is the ability to store, route or transform the message as it is being delivered. Message Oriented Middleware - Storage. Most MOM systems provide a persistent storage to back up the message transfer medium. This means that it is not necessary for both the sender and receiver to be connected at the same time (asynchronous deliver). This is particularly useful when dealing with intermittent connections, such as unreliable networks or timed conn ...

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Message Oriented Middleware, Message Oriented Middleware - Advantages, Message Oriented Middleware - Storage, Message Oriented Middleware - Routing, Message Oriented Middleware - Transformation, Message Oriented Middleware - Disadvantages, Message Oriented Middleware - Standards, Message Oriented Middleware - MOM Products

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Initially, the infra is being used in Infra Projects, in which an organization's goal is to achieve business-wide database application interoperability. If, for example, a company and its business partners want to share a database application that utilizes data and procedures from any of their incompatible software systems, they can export the data to the infra, select or create infra business-procedure templates to manage it, and ac ...

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Universal Enterprise Infrastructure, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Summary, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Description, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Standards, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Practical uses, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Why it's being built now

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The infra is an organized body of related information similar in design to any privately-owned database application. Unlike an organization's private database software, however, business procedures and data stored on the infra can be shared by multiple organizations and consumers via the Internet. In an organization's internal database application data can only be related—and procedures applied—to the information the database contains, or to other database applications with which it is compatible. The organization must employ cust ...

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Universal Enterprise Infrastructure, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Summary, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Description, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Standards, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Practical uses, Universal Enterprise Infrastructure - Why it's being built now

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Today organizations are required to exchange data quickly and precisely between computer systems using EAI Enterprise application integration technologies. Completed transactions must also be regularly transfered to separate data warehouse systems with specialized structures designed to make data retrieval efficient. Many industry experts feel that this can only be done efficiently if data is precisely defined and automated tools are created to exchange data between remote computer systems. Precise exchange of data between computers is also a ...

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ISO/IEC 11179, ISO/IEC 11179 - Strategic nature, ISO/IEC 11179 - Structure of an ISO Metadata Registry, ISO/IEC 11179 - Structure of ISO Documentation, ISO/IEC 11179 - Extensions to the ISO/IEC 11179 Standard, ISO/IEC 11179 - Examples of ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries, ISO/IEC 11179 - Metadata Registry Vendor Tools

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The primary disadvantage of message oriented middleware is that it requires an extra component in the architecture, the message transfer agent. As with any system, adding another component can lead to reductions in performance and reliability, and can also make the system as a whole more difficult and expensive to maintain. In addition, many inter-application communications are synchronous by nature, with the sender specifically wanting to wait for a reply before continuing. Because message based communication is inherently asynchrono ...

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Message Oriented Middleware, Message Oriented Middleware - Advantages, Message Oriented Middleware - Storage, Message Oriented Middleware - Routing, Message Oriented Middleware - Transformation, Message Oriented Middleware - Disadvantages, Message Oriented Middleware - Standards, Message Oriented Middleware - MOM Products

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