GLOSSARY
Accidental Architecture—Describes those integrated systems that have organically grown to respond to a series of business needs without regards to an overall architectural model or pattern. In many cases, an enterprise will intend to use a specific integration architectural model, but time or monetary constraints will force an accidental architecture.
Adapter—In SOA, an adapter is a component that translates from one middleware standard to another. Software that turns SOAP messages into SQL calls for access to a database would be one such example. The term adapter may also denote the wrapper around the service.
API (Application Programming Interface)—APIs are the (often) proprietary methods through which an application can be programmatically ...
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