A point-to-point integration example: One application makes direct JDBC (Java Database Connection) calls to another application’s database tables.

Traditional application integration has been done using point-to-point programming with or without a messaging infrastructure and database-to-database integration.

Application integration has a split personality. By some accounts, it’s the good Dr. Jekyll, ready to cure whatever ails the enterprise: Share data with employees, efficiency soars; share data ...

In the late 1990s, in an effort to simplify point-to-point communication, a new strategy called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) became popular. This is the so-called “hub-and-spoke” method of ...

Point-to-Point Also called app-to-app, this approach involves hand-coding integration, and typically takes place within an enterprise. This remains a tried-and-true method for moving data from ...

Sun Microsystems has rechristened SeeBeyond's integration suite as the Sun Java Integration Suite, and now, "must migrate the SeeBeyond product away from its proprietary, point-to-point roots and ...

EAI unites databases and workflows associated with business applications to ensure information is represented and used consistently. With enterprise application integration, changes to the core ...

Integration between software components allows maximum functionality and return on existing systems, says Neal Donnan, application development executive at EnterpriseWorx.

Enterprise integration is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and each organization is unique and will have different requirements for their own integration solution.

Based on integration type the application integration market is segmented into point-to-point integration, enterprise application integration, enterprise service bus, integration platform as a ...