Fred A. Cummins is an Enterprise Consultant with EDS, chair of the Common Enterprise Models Domain Task Force
for the OMG, and has over thirty years of experience in management consulting and information systems development.
He also contributed to the UML Profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing specification.
Summary
An expert guide to solving real business problems using components
This groundbreaking book gets developers up to speed on Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA components, and other cutting
edge technologies that are making it easier and cheaper than ever for companies to integrate all of their applications
into unified systems to support corporate decision-making. Fred Cummins presents an overview of the integration
architecture and then dives right into the details, including communications messaging techniques for integrating
application components, the "publish and subscribe" mechanism for linking components and monitoring business
activities, using "adapters" to integrate applications, integrating Web services, work-flow management,
and he also supplies proven code solutions for an array of problems associated with integrating packaged and custom
applications across the enterprise.
Companion Web site features source code and updates on the EAI architecture and underlying technologies.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Introduction.
Acknowledgments.
Assessing the Technology Landscape.
Setting Enterprise Integration Design Objectives.
Defining the Enterprise Architecture.
Establishing the Enterprise Infrastructure.
Creating a Business System Domain.
Providing the Messaging Infrastructure.
Integrating Workflow Management.
Providing Web-Based User Access.
Integrating with XML.
Using Component Technology.
Ensuring Enterprise System Security.
Supporting Enterprise Intelligence.
Implementing the Architecture.
