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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

EAI (enterprise application integration) is a business computing term for the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise. Typically, an enterprise has existing legacy applications and databases and wants to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and other new technologies. EAI may involve developing a new total view of an enterprise's business and its applications, seeing how existing applications fit into the new view, and then devising ways to efficiently reuse what already exists while adding new applications and data.

EAI encompasses methodologies such as object-oriented programming, distributed, cross-platform program communication using message brokers with Common Object Request Broker Architecture and COM+, the modification of enterprise resource planning (ERP) to fit new objectives, enterprise-wide content and data distribution using common databases and data standards implemented with the Extensible Markup Language (XML), middleware, message queueing, and other approaches.

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Patterns and Best Practices for Enterprise Integration

This site is dedicated to making the design and implementation of integration solutions easier. The solutions and approaches described here are valid for most integration tools and standards such as IBM WebSphere MQ, TIBCO, Vitria, SeeBeyond, WebMethods, BizTalk, JMS, MSMQ, Web Services etc.

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/

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Enterprise Application Integration by David S. Linthicum

Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services by David S. Linthicum

Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration by Fred A. Cummins

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design by Thomas Erl

Service-Oriented Architecture : A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services by Thomas Erl

Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More by Sanjiva Weerawarana, Francisco Curbera, Frank Leymann, Tony Storey, Donald F. Ferguson

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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

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