Chapter Nine. Integration Servers and Application Integration
Integration servers are the center of the universe when it comes to application integration. They are not “general-purpose” middleware products such as message queuing or transactional software. Indeed, integration servers were built from the ground up to solve the application integration problem, both intra- and intercompany. Therefore, this chapter is very important, considering that integration servers are part of the solution set for most application integration problems.
As we'll see later in this book, integration servers continue to evolve as the needs of the marketplace evolve. Rather than support simple information exchange between source and target systems, integration servers ...
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