Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Other Features

Vendors are building other features into their integration servers all the time. These might include version control to track the changes made in integration models (including check in/check out), traditional configuration management capabilities, and impact analysis (the ability to examine how changing information flows will affect a trading community before making the actual changes to the physical flows).

Finally, all integration servers have some sort of amalgamation with a process integration tool that supports functions such as collaboration. Process integration tools place logical abstraction layers on top of existing physical integration flows, allowing users to view application integration from a business-oriented perspective ...