Enterprise and Application Integration Theory and Concepts

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The efficiency of team coordinations is key to Integration projects. Knowing what each other is meaning avoids much debate and confusion. The problem is actually twofold:

• there are terms that we each understand in different ways;
• a rough understanding of the issues at stake can prevent us to decompose a problem properly, dissociate related issues, or even see some aspects of it. We would thus mix in our minds very different things that we then put under the same term - therefore incorrect .

These definitions dissociate essential integration dimensions and put a name on each feature:

• Business Segments
• Integration Scenarios
• Integration Techniques: Messaging, Mailing Systems, File Transfer, Transaction Monitor, Application Bus, RPC tools, Shared Database, etc.
• Integration Framework
• Process or Task and Workflow
• Service, Function and Interface
• ALARP or BANTEEC
• Idempotent
• Transaction
• Declarative or Procedural information
• Synchronous, asynchronous, batch and real-time
• Prescriptive versus Rule-Based Processes
• Front end, clearing system, broker, proxy, gateway, router, and more...
• Process-driven, Data-driven and other forms of integration
• Sharing Levels

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