Chapter Two. Information-Oriented Application Integration

In this chapter we'll focus on the notion of moving information between two or more systems. This is the primary function of application integration. Although this seems to be a straightforward theory, you may want to watch out for some new concepts here including transformation, routing, and data analysis. Those topics will appear again later in the book.

Most application integration projects will leverage Information-Oriented Application Integration (IOAI). Indeed, IOAI is the ground floor of application integration, providing a simple mechanism to exchange information between two or more systems. This does not mean, as we covered in Chapter 1, that you can't mix IOAI with the other ...

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