Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Enterprise Application Integration is an integration framework composed of a collection of technologies and services which form a middleware to enable integration of systems and applications across the enterprise. Fundamentally, it is all about sharing and distributing data and processes among different applications and data sources of that enterprise. EAI could be divided into 4 integration levels: Data Level Application Interface Level Method Level User Interface Level Data Level: It is actually a database-centric approach that involves the extracting of data from one database and updating it in other. At times the extracted data can be changed before entering it into that target database, for example, to apply specific business rules. It’s commonly done through ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load). The main benefits of this approach are its low cost and low risk profile. Because in this, we don’t have to make any modifications to...