Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Management

Administration and management of the application integration problem domain is primarily the responsibility of the management layer of the integration server. Because of the level of the technology's maturity and the fact that several enterprise management tools are on the market, too many integration servers are marketed with little or no management.

Application integration solutions require the ability to start and stop source and target applications, as well as the ability to monitor important statistics, such as performance, message integrity, and the general functioning of the entire application integration problem domain. Some integration server vendors are correctly anticipating the needs of application integration management ...