Chapter One. Enterprise Integration Styles

With contributions from Dean Hansen

Introduction

Java CAPS is a toolbox that supports many Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) styles. Its core components deliver message-based application-to-application integration. Java CAPS also enables other styles of integration, including composite applications, Web Services orchestration, single-customer view, and service-oriented architectures.

The fundamental premise of application integration is that it should be noninvasive. This philosophical approach minimizes application changes and costs associated with integration. To that end, it leverages application capabilities rather than requiring applications to adapt to it. Because applications’ integration capabilities ...

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