Designing New Integration-Ready Applications

A fundamental assumption for all new applications should be that integration with other applications is inevitable. Hence, every new application must include an adapter with a minimum set of functionalities such as data uploads and downloads, shared procedures, and so on. New applications must be ready with basic integration capabilities from the beginning.

Readers of this book are obviously developing new J2EE applications. But just because you may be using leading-edge technologies does not mean the software will be better. Bad programming practices transcend all technologies, including J2EE and Java. However, the J2EE programming model does enforce a more component-based development model. J2EE ...

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