Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Integration Servers Defined

Integration servers can broker information between one or more target entities (networks, middleware, applications, and/or systems) with significantly greater ease than traditional methods, or point-to-point middleware. What's more, they can accomplish this regardless of how the information is represented or accessed. Integration servers can be positioned between any number of source or target systems that exist inside or outside of an enterprise, and broker the information exchange between them. They can account for differences in application semantics and database schemas, and process information by transforming the structure or format of the information so it makes sense to the target application that receives it. ...