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Leverage the existing investment
Enable back-end application integration
Minimize application complexity
The primary goal of the Exposed Direct Connection application pattern is to
permit an application to gain direct and real-time access to another application
that is outside the organization to reduce the latency of business events.
Solution
The Exposed Direct Connection application pattern, as shown in Figure 4-4 on
page 72, is divided into a number of logical components:
The
Source Application tier represents one or more applications that are
interested in initiating an interaction with the target application in another
organization.
The
Connection is the line between the source application ...