Guidelines for application integration

Guidelines for Application Integration

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Contents
Chapter 1

Introduction

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Who Should Read This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2 How This Guide Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 2: Defining Your Application Integration Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 3: Security and Operational Considerations . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter 4: Using Microsoft Technologies for Application Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Appendix: Application Integration Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What Is Application Integration? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Benefits of ApplicationIntegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Types of Application Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Choosing the Right Types of Application Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Making Application Integration Scalable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6 Requirements for Application Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Implementing Application Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Extract, Transform, and Load . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Communications Message Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Screen Scraping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Program Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....