Chapter 6. Enterprise Application Integration

Enterprise information systems—the collection of relational and legacy database systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and mainframe transaction processing systems—provide the critical information infrastructure for an enterprise's business processes. These varied systems hold the information that an enterprise needs to carry out its daily operations. It is essential that new applications developed for an enterprise be able to integrate with these enterprise information systems (EIS).

EIS integration has always been of great importance, and this has given rise to enterprise application integration, or EAI. EAI enables an enterprise to integrate its existing applications and systems, ...

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