Chapter Three. Using a Framework for Application Integration

In this chapter we examine the implementation options for the application server and enterprise information services tiers introduced in Chapter 2. First, we discuss the two application development standards that have emerged as the de facto frameworks for developing Web-based applications: Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET. These standards provide an overall structure for programmers and designers to build and integrate fine-grained portal components. Next, we examine a coarser-grained level of service, application integration services. These services provide data interchange between systems in the portal. Of course, any time we have movement of data or user access ...

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