Enterprise Application Integration: A Wiley Tech Brief

Learn to utilize today's hottest EAI technologies to ensure interoperability across your organization

What exactly is enterprise application integration (EAI)? What makes this $300 million market so hot that it's expected to grow to $6.5 billion in the next two years? How do you apply it in the real world? Whether you're an IT professional or systems architect, business manager or software developer, if you're looking into EAI as a solution for unifying applications and systems across the enterprise, then the answers are here.

You'll find a complete and unbiased survey of the different technologies, architectures, and approaches available for EAI implementations, inlcuding pros and cons, clear explanations of all concepts, and first-rate guidance on how to choose the best EAI strategy for your company.

The authors draw on their pioneering work with early implementations to show you how to:

• Define your specific integration problem in a useful form that enables a real solution
• Develop your own EAI architecture and ensure interoperability of legacy, stovepipe, COTS, client-server and modern technology applications
• Choose the best among messaging architecture, object architecture, and transaction architecture
• Utilize the proven Secure Application Integration Methodology (SAIM)

About the Authors

William A. Ruh is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concept Five Technologies, a leading EAI and object-oriented consulting comapny based in McLean, Virginia. The author of two books, Ruth also chairs the group responsible for creating EAI-related standards at the Object Management Group (OMG).

Francis X. Maginnis is vice President of Telecommunications Practice at Concept Five Technologies, where he led the team that developed Concept Five's Secure Application Integration Methodology (SAIM).

William J. Brown works for Saga Software Inc. in Reston, Virginia as director of Research and Development for the Sagavista enterprise integration broker.