Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services

Interface Types

Not all application interfaces will provide all of the functionality required to create and operate service-oriented adapters, and adapters are always limited by the capabilities of the interfaces that the source or target systems provide. To this end, it's helpful to define interface types that applications and databases provide that fit with service- or information-oriented adapters.

They are

• Static data

• Dynamic data

• Function return data

• Function return service

• Function return abstraction

Static data application interfaces refer to those application interfaces that return simple information within a static record that is difficult—if not impossible—to change. These old types of application interfaces only provide fixed data with ...