This paper briefly compares Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) suites from two leading vendors: IBM and TIBCO. This comparison leads to an observation that the products in the EAI space converge; the products on the lower levels become commoditized while the innovation concentrates on the higher stack levels. Similarities extend beyond the […]

How do you apply SOA ideas in the EAI world? the following is an outline of Service-oriented Integration architecture: an EAI based on SOA concepts. In order to marry the two, we’ll borrow some SOA concepts, we’ll reject some of them and finally we’ll add a few extensions […]

Integrating applications may have multiple and differing objectives. For instance, you may want to synchronize the data between disparate applications or provide the user community with a single view of multiple legacy systems that your organization collected over the years. Or you would like to do both.

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This article lists the core functions of an EAI platform. See EAI Convergence for an example of actual stacks from TIBCO and IBM.
The integration platform functions and the core integration services enable the integration platform to play the role of an active intermediary between the transport-connected services. The platform functions and core integration services constitute […]

EAI Defined
In general, the computing term Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) denotes the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer application in an enterprise(*[1]). This general term covers both the traditional integration technologies (point-to-point, custom developed batch processes, CORBA, database replication, etc.) as well as the new ones (brokering, […]

One of the key features setting this architecture apart from the traditional EAI and SOA implementations is the idea of document centric processing. In short, we replace the traditional API- and RPC-style integration with exchange of documents.
Tradition
The tradition of integration is deeply rooted in the concept of API. I am […]