June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
15h 17m
English
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Chapter 4. XML: The Foundation for Business Data Integration
This chapter will explore the use of XML as a means for providing the mediation between diverse data structures and formats as data is passed between applications. We will also examine how ESB-enabled data transformation and content-based routing services can support an XML data exchange architecture that insulates individual applications from wholesale changes in data structures.
The Language of Integration
XML, the eXtensible Markup Language, is accepted by the industry as the ideal vehicle for sharing structured data among applications and organizations. Putting aside for a moment the benefits of web services technologies such as SOAP and WSDL, there is much to be gained by simply adopting XML as the means for representing data that is shared between applications. XML has many benefits, including the following:
- XML is becoming universally understood.
XML has become a lingua franca for representing data and interfaces between applications. Many packaged-application vendors provide inputs and outputs in XML. Think about your own applications and how they could better integrate and share data if they accepted and emitted XML.
- XML provides a richer data model
The power of XML to represent data is one reason that it’s been adopted so broadly. XML lets you model hierarchies, lists, and complex types directly in the data structure. This is in contrast to an RDBMS, which requires table joins, special schema features, and mapping ...
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