 - EAI (enterprise application integration) is a business computing term for the plans, methods, and tools aimed at modernizing, consolidating, and coordinating the computer applications in an enterprise. Typically, an enterprise has existing legacy applications and databases and wants to continue to use them while adding or migrating to a new set of applications that exploit the Internet, e-commerce, extranet, and other new technologies. EAI may involve developing a new total view of an enterprise's business and its applications, seeing how existing applications fit into the new view, and then devising ways to efficiently reuse what already exists while adding new applications and data.
EAI encompasses methodologies such as object-oriented programming, distributed, cross-platform program communication using message brokers with Common Object Request Broker Architecture and COM+, the modification of enterprise resource planning (ERP) to fit new objectives, enterprise-wide content and data distribution using common databases and data standards implemented with the Extensible Markup Language (XML), middleware, message queueing, and other approaches.
 | Getting started with J2EE |
| To explore how the J2EE is used in the enterprise, here are some additional resources: | | Services messaging and mediation: Mediation offers a way to create a more flexible and manageable messaging infrastructure for application integration, making it a powerful set of tools for architects pursuing SOA. |
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Sean Boiling, Prasad Dasika, and Srikanth Krishnan |
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21 Jul 2008
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