Adaptable World
As you can see, adapters are a huge part of application integration. They remove us from the need to deal with the interface details that communicate with a variety of different source and target systems. What's more, adapters provide more consistency from interface to interface because they are, by design, reusable from problem domain to problem domain. However, adapters do not remove the need to have a complete integration solution, including transformation, routing, and process integration. They merely deal with the connectivity to the source or target systems.
Adapters are becoming more important as we look to leverage new standards such as Web services. They need to change from information oriented to service oriented, something ...
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