B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series) - Softcover

Mary O-Brien; Linthicum, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201709368 ISBN 13: 9780201709360

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

In B2B Application Integration, noted enterprise application integration expert David Linthicum presents a timely, sophisticated introduction to middleware: the glue that holds today's rapidly changing e-Business IT infrastructures together. This book covers all aspects of e-Business integration, from concepts to technology, helping any IT professional understand how to leverage middleware to achieve business goals. Linthicum introduces each key technology enabling B2B application integration, including message brokers, application servers, XML, Microsoft's BizTalk initiative, Internet-enabled EDI, and more. Using real-world case studies and examples, he shows how to define an e-Business technical strategy that aligns with the objectives of the business; how to architect superior integrated B2B systems and infrastructure; and how to make the most of today's best tactical tools and techniques. For all IT managers, application integrators, and system architects concerned with delivering B2B systems that integrate diverse applications, both within the enterprise and beyond its borders.

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About the Author

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known distributed-computing and application integration expert who speaks at popular technical conferences throughout the United States. He has almost twenty years of experience in the integration-technology industry, most recently as CTO of Mercator Software, Inc. Before joining Mercator, David was the CTO of SAGA Software, and also held senior-level management positions at Electronic Data Systems, AT&T Solutions, and Ernst & Young LLP. He has consulted for hundreds of major corporations engaged in systems analysis, design, and development, with a concentration in complex distributed systems. This is David's third book on application integration.

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From the Back Cover

e-Business is no longer a buzzword; it is a reality in which internal and external business systems customers, financial partners, suppliers, and support operations communicate and execute transactions instantly and automatically. These emerging electronic business-to-business (B2B) relationships require a new type of integration technology that is dependent on intelligent, flexible middleware layers that glue disparate applications, databases, and processes together.

B2B Application Integration is a comprehensive guide to the concepts, techniques, and technologies that enable application integration, the technical foundation of e-Business. Noted application integration expert David Linthicum details real-time application integration solutions and explains how middleware layers work to create a seamless whole out of numerous independent systems, both within and between enterprises.

Inside you will find in-depth coverage of the five types of B2B application integration: data-oriented, application interface-oriented, method-oriented, portal-oriented, and process integration-oriented. B2B Application Integration also describes in detail available middleware technologies and existing and emerging B2B application integration standards. Specific topics covered include:

• Enabling B2B application integration standards, including XML, RosettaNet, BizTalk, and XSLT
• Message brokers and B2B integration servers for B2B application integration
• EAI technology and B2B application integration
• Database-to-database integration models
• Integrating with packaged applications and vertical market interfaces
• Frameworks, distributed objects, and transaction servers for method-oriented B2B application integration
• Portal-oriented integration, focusing on Web enablement technologies
• Digital exchanges and B2B application integration
• Tools and approaches for process integration-oriented B2B application integration
• Transactional middleware, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Transactional COM+, and their use with application servers
• Java middleware standards such as JMS, EJB, J2EE, and RMI
• Traditional RPCs and Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
• Distributed objects, including CORBA and COM+
• Database-oriented middleware, including ODBC, JDBC, and OLE DB

Also discussed are the ways to evaluate and choose the most effective application-integration approaches and technologies for your organization. This book will give you a clear understanding of the tools and techniques required for successful application integration and the know-how you need to put them to work to create a successful e-Business solution.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201709368
• ISBN 13: 9780201709360
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432