Dealing with the concepts behind a vendor's products, this a guide for IT managers on how to ensure the IT infrastructure matches the need of the enterprise, and which procedures should be followed to ensure this happens.

Learn to utilize today's hottest EAI technologies to ensure interoperability across your organization What exactly is enterprise application integration (EAI)? What makes this $300 million market so hot that it's expected to grow to $6.5 billion in the next two years? How do you apply it in the real world? Whether you're an IT professional or systems architect, business manager or software developer, if you're looking into EAI as a solution for unifying applications and systems across the enterprise, then the answers are in this book.You'll find a complete and unbiased survey of the different technologies, architectures, and approaches available for EAI implementations, including pros and cons, clear explanations of all concepts, and first-rate guidance on how to choose the best EAI strategy for your company. The authors draw on their pioneering work with early implementations to show you how to: * Define your specific integration problem in a useful form that enables a real solution * Develop your own EAI architecture and ensure interoperability of legacy, stovepipe, COTS, client-server and modern technology applications * Choose the best among messaging architecture, object architecture, and transaction architecture * Work with the best implementation technologies, including Microsoft's COM+, the OMG's CORBA, and Sun's EJB * Utilize the proven Secure Application Integration Methodology (SAIM) Wiley Tech Briefs Focused on the needs of the corporate IT and business manager, the Tech Briefs series provides in-depth information on a new or emerging technology, solutions, and vendor offerings available in the marketplace. With their accessible approach, these books will help you get quickly up-to-speed on a topic so that you can effectively compete, grow, and better serve your customers.

Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an invaluable catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help you to design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise. The authors also include examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, such as JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, Microsoft BizTalk, SOAP, and XSL. A case study describing a bond trading system illustrates the patterns in practice, and the book offers a look at emerging standards, as well as insights into what the future of enterprise integration might hold. This book provides a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration solutions across many technologies. It also explores in detail the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures. The authors present practical advice on designing code that connects an application to a messaging system, and provide extensive information to help you determine when to send a message, how to route it to the proper destination, and how to monitor the health of a messaging system. If you want to know how to manage, monitor, and maintain a messaging system once it is in use, get this book.

••Defines Web services and integration and the relationship between EAI and Web services•Outlines the types of Web services integration from standards, implementation to enabling technologies•Features Web services integration scenarios and case studies

The ultimate guide to attacking one of the biggest problems in IT today - application integration - using the .NET Framework.

"This book...gives EAI architects and developers the opportunity to learn directly from the authority on distributed computing, EAI, and CORBA." -David S. Linthicum Chief Technology Officer, SAGA Software, Inc. In this book a CORBA pioneer provides proven, cost-effective techniques for integrating enterprise applications (including legacy applications) into modern, multiplatform systems. He also offers valuable advice and guidance on how to build new CORBA-based applications using the latest features of CORBA 3 . With the help of numerous case studies and examples, he provides detailed solutions for specific integration problems along with step-by-step guidance on: * Using CORBA as the infrastructure for EAI * Architecture principles for integrating the Web and back-end systems * CORBA Component Model for component-based development * Relationship of CORBA components to DCOM, JavaBeans, and Enterprise JavaBeans * Using the essential CORBA services * Object wrapping techniques for integrating legacy applications into multi-platform systems * Building secure, multiplatform Web applications On the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/zahavi/ you'll find: * Articles on related topics * Continually maintained ORB and integration server, vendor, and product comparisons * A dynamic discussion group on architectural best practices