Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services (下一代應用程式整合：從簡單資訊到網路服務)

For a majority of businesses, application integration is an outright failure. Most companies' computer systems are labyrinthine at best and self-destructive at worst. With the arrival of Web services, the new service-oriented middleware technology standard, and increasingly complex and challenging problem domains, it's time to take application integration to the next level.

In Next Generation Application Integration distributed computing and application-integration expert David S. Linthicum describes the effect that this new generation of middleware will have on traditional application-integration efforts. Using key industry examples and case studies, Linthicum reveals the techniques and practices that are necessary to revolutionize data-sharing for any company--from sole-proprietorship to Fortune 500.

In this book you'll find a thorough discussion of today's most advanced application-integration concepts, approaches, technologies, and solutions. Written with the technical manager and enterprise architect in mind, this book addresses essential application integration issues such as:

• Strategies for dealing with complex problem domains
• Forward-looking approaches to ensure long-term solutions that are right for your company
• Techniques for implementation of new Web services middleware
• Introductions to the appropriate technologies for next generation application integration
• Scenarios for Web services integration
• Support concepts outlined by case studies and real-world examples
• Descriptions and analyses of the different types of Web service integration--standards, implementation, and enabling technology
• Full analysis of Web services and integration, including the relationship between EAI and Web services
• How to leverage both vertical and horizontal application-integration standards

If you're responsible for managing or implementing application-integration middleware, Next Generation Application Integration will prove to be an indispensable resource.

Table of Contents

Preface.


Acknowledgments.


1. Approaching Application Integration.

2. Information-Oriented Application Integration.

3. Business Process Integration-Oriented Application Integration.

4. Service-Oriented Application Integration.

5. Portal-Oriented Application Integration.

6. Middleware Basics.

7. Middleware Types and Application Integration: What Works Where?

8. Java-Based Middleware Standards and Application Integration.

9. Integration Servers and Application Integration.

10. Adapters and the J2EE Connector Architecture.

11. XML, XSLT, and Application Integration.

12. ebXML and Application Integration.

13. bPEL4WS and Application Integration.

14. UCCnet and RosettaNet: Supply Chain Integration Standards.

15. SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, Oh My . . . Web Services Foundations and Application Integration.

16. Other Standards.

17. The "Verticalization" of Application Integration Technology.

18. 12 Steps to Application Integration.

19. Leveraging Ontologies and Application Integration.

20. Application Integration Manifesto.

Glossary.


Appendix A. PIP Specification.


Appendix B. Where XML Fits with Application Integration.

Appendix C. Knowledge-Oriented Middleware.

Bibliography.


Index.