Dealing with the concepts behind a vendor's products, this a guide for IT managers on how to ensure the IT infrastructure matches the need of the enterprise, and which procedures should be followed to ensure this happens.
••Defines Web services and integration and the relationship between EAI and Web services•Outlines the types of Web services integration from standards, implementation to enabling technologies•Features Web services integration scenarios and case studies
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 in this book.You'll find a complete and unbiased survey of the different technologies, architectures, and approaches available for EAI implementations, including 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 * Work with the best implementation technologies, including Microsoft's COM+, the OMG's CORBA, and Sun's EJB * Utilize the proven Secure Application Integration Methodology (SAIM) Wiley Tech Briefs Focused on the needs of the corporate IT and business manager, the Tech Briefs series provides in-depth information on a new or emerging technology, solutions, and vendor offerings available in the marketplace. With their accessible approach, these books will help you get quickly up-to-speed on a topic so that you can effectively compete, grow, and better serve your customers.
Application integration assembles methods and tools for organizing exchanges between applications, and intra- and inter-enterprise business processes. A strategic tool for enterprises, it introduces genuine reactivity into information systems facing business changes, and as a result, provides a significant edge in optimizing costs. This book analyzes various aspects of application integration, providing a guide to the alphabet soup behind EAI, A2A, B2B, BAM, BPM, ESB and SOA. It addresses the problems of choosing between the application integration solutions and deploying them successfully. It supplies guidelines for avoiding common errors, exploring the differences between received wisdom and the facts on the ground. The overview of IT urbanization will help introduce English-speaking audiences to a powerful approach to information system flexibility developed in France. A key chapter approaches the analysis and interoperation of service levels in integration projects, while the discussion on deployment methodologies and ROI calculation anchors the theory in the real world. Application Integration: EAI, B2B, BPM and SOA relies on concrete examples and genuine experiences to demonstrate what works – and what doesn’t – in this challenging, topical and important IT domain.
Ontology-based Application Integration introduces UI-level (User Interface Level) application integration and discusses current problems which can be remedied by using ontologies. It shows a novel approach for applying ontologies in system integration. While ontologies have been used for integration of IT systems on the database and on the business logic layer, integration on the user interface layer is a novel field of research. This book also discusses how end users, not only developers, can benefit from semantic technologies. Ontology-based Application Integration presents the development of a software framework including a detailed ontology about user interfaces and interactions. This includes a running case study of a real world integrated emergency management system. The last section of this book discusses useful features that can be built on top of the framework for improving the user experience with future integrated information systems. Ontology-based Application Integration is designed as a reference book for practitioners and researchers who understand and work with the principles of applying semantic web technologies to a software engineering problem. This book will also make an excellent reference or secondary text book for advanced-level students concentrating on computer science.
Unleash the transformative potential of GenAI with this comprehensive guide that serves as an indispensable roadmap for integrating large language models into real-world applications. Gain invaluable insights into identifying compelling use cases, leveraging state-of-the-art models effectively, deploying these models into your applications at scale, and navigating ethical considerations. Key Features Get familiar with the most important tools and concepts used in real scenarios to design GenAI apps Interact with GenAI models to tailor model behavior to minimize hallucinations Get acquainted with a variety of strategies and an easy to follow 4 step frameworks for integrating GenAI into applications Book Description Explore the transformative potential of GenAI in the application development lifecycle. Through concrete examples, you will go through the process of ideation and integration, understanding the tradeoffs and the decision points when integrating GenAI. With recent advances in models like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, DALL-E and GPT-4o, this timely resource will help you harness these technologies through proven design patterns. We then delve into the practical applications of GenAI, identifying common use cases and applying design patterns to address real-world challenges. From summarization and metadata extraction to intent classification and question answering, each chapter offers practical examples and blueprints for leveraging GenAI across diverse domains and tasks. You will learn how to fine-tune models for specific applications, progressing from basic prompting to sophisticated strategies such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and chain of thought. Additionally, we provide end-to-end guidance on operationalizing models, including data prep, training, deployment, and monitoring. We also focus on responsible and ethical development techniques for transparency, auditing, and governance as crucial design patterns. What you will learn Concepts of GenAI: pre-training, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and RAG Framework for integrating AI: entry points, prompt pre-processing, inference, post-processing, and presentation Patterns for batch and real-time integration Code samples for metadata extraction, summarization, intent classification, question-answering with RAG, and more Ethical use: bias mitigation, data privacy, and monitoring Deployment and hosting options for GenAI models Who this book is for This book is not an introduction to AI/ML or Python. It offers practical guides for designing, building, and deploying GenAI applications in production. While all readers are welcome, those who benefit most include: Developer engineers with foundational tech knowledge Software architects seeking best practices and design patterns Professionals using ML for data science, research, etc., who want a deeper understanding of Generative AI Technical product managers with a software development background This concise focus ensures practical, actionable insights for experienced professionals
This handbook on J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) platform connector architecture shows how to maximise J2EE applications within the application integration space. It includes a detailed look at connection pooling, transactions and managing security.