Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Database-Oriented Middleware and Application Integration

To a large extent, application integration depends upon database access. This is particularly true for data-oriented application integration. Databases were once proprietary and therefore difficult to access. Now, so many solutions for accessing data exist that we rarely have a problem when we need to retrieve information from or place it into any database. The solutions not only make application integration a much easier proposition, but they also speak directly to the idea that the capability of modern middleware drives the interest in application integration.

However, even with many simplified database access solutions, databases and database-oriented middleware quickly grow complicated. ...