Information-Oriented versus Service-Oriented Adapters
Another clear trend in the world of adapters is the movement from simple information movement to support for service-level application connectivity. As you may guess, each approach requires very different types of adapter technology.
When dealing with simple information, the information-oriented adapter merely leverages whatever interface is available to extract information from the source system, and moves that information into the integration server (see Figure 10.5). For example, customer-address information coming from SAP may be transformed to account for differences in application semantics and then published to a target system (or systems), say, PeopleSoft, using the same type of information-oriented ...
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