Service-Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

Data integration scenarios

These scenarios show how the data integration business patterns described in Chapter 1 can be implemented. These business patterns are as follows:

• Federation: The federation pattern allows access to different data sources, and gives the impression to the requesting application that these are a single logical data source.
• Population: The population pattern gathers data from one or more data sources, processes the data in an appropriate way, and applies it to a target database.
• Synchronization: The synchronization pattern enables bidirectional update flows of data in multi-copy database environments.

Implementing the federation business pattern

A modern SOA-based approach can be taken in order to implement the federation business ...