Enterprise Integration

An expert guide to solving real business problems using components

This groundbreaking book gets developers up to speed on Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA components, and other cutting edge technologies that are making it easier and cheaper than ever for companies to integrate all of their applications into unified systems to support corporate decision-making. Fred Cummins presents an overview of the integration architecture and then dives right into the details, including communications messaging techniques for integrating application components, the "publish and subscribe" mechanism for linking components and monitoring business activities, using "adapters" to integrate applications, integrating Web services, work-flow management, and he also supplies proven code solutions for an array of problems associated with integrating packaged and custom applications across the enterprise.

Companion Web site features source code and updates on the EAI architecture and underlying technologies.

Die Einführung unternehmensweiter Lösungen verschlingt gewöhnlich große Teile des IT-Budgets. Aus diesem Grund wenden sich mittlerweile viele Unternehmen Komponententechnologien (Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA) zu, um ihre Geschäftsprozesse zu optimieren. Dabei wird der Leser anhand detaillierter Beispiele von den Geschäftsvorgaben zum Code geführt. Entwickler lernen, Komponententechnologien gezielt zur Integration von Anwendungen einzusetzen sowie diese Anwendungen zu verwalten und zu aktualisieren. Die zugehörige Website enthält alle besprochenen Codebeispiele. Foreword.

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

Assessing the Technology Landscape.

Setting Enterprise Integration Design Objectives.

Defining the Enterprise Architecture.

Establishing the Enterprise Infrastructure.

Creating a Business System Domain.

Providing the Messaging Infrastructure.

Integrating Workflow Management.

Providing Web-Based User Access.

Integrating with XML.

Using Component Technology.

Ensuring Enterprise System Security.

Supporting Enterprise Intelligence.

Implementing the Architecture.

References.

Index. FRED A. CUMMINS is an Enterprise Consultant with EDS, chair of the Common Enterprise Models Domain Task Force for the OMG, and has over thirty years of experience in management consulting and information systems development. He also contributed to the UML Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing specification. Businesses are being challenged to exploit new technologies while reducing costs, improving quality, and responding faster to opportunities. Electronic commerce, global markets, and Internet-speed business transactions demand fundamental changes. Business-to-business communications, enterprise portals, and application components are only some of the capabilities businesses must develop in order to compete. Fred Cummins provides guidelines for implementing an enterprise integration architecture that will enable you to capitalize on current and future technologies.

This comprehensive book begins by assessing the technology landscape, defining enterprise integration objectives, and providing a general enterprise integration architecture.

The author then dives into the keytechnologies for implementing this architecture, including:
* Messaging for EAI and communication between major business systems
* Component-based applications based on EJB and CORBA for rapid development and flexibility
* Using Extensible Markup Language (XML) for document exchange and electronic signatures
* Managing workflow for process automation and streamlining
* Web access and Web services for electronic commerce and supply-chain integration
* Security and public key infrastructure (PKI) to support single sign-on, encryption, and protection from hackers

The companion Web site, www.wiley.com/compbooks/cummins, includes:
* Reference information
* Links to other resources and tools
* Supplementary information
* Updates to the book