- Introduction
- Success Factors
- Connectivity Time
- Middleware Technologies
- Integration Hubs
- Integration Issues
- Conclusion
- References
Middleware Technologies
In addition to web services, middleware for EAI and web-based systems is only part of the enterprise's full picture. Middleware for legacy systems, databases, e-commerce, and network systems fill out the picture with the following:
Distributed transaction and messaging systems
CORBA and other object-oriented technologies
.NET Framework, SOAP, and Microsoft Transaction Server
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Java Messaging Service (JMS), Java Media Framework (JMF), and other Java technologies
XML and associated technologies
Performance technologies such as IP traffic performance, bandwidth managers, traffic shapers, content-delivery networks, caching, load balancing, service management, and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
The big picture, however, needs to be rounded out with the following for both inter-integration and intra-integration hubs:
Human resources
Business and workflow processes
Computer and network resources
Service management
Interoperability issues
End-user involvement in each developmental stage