Architectural integration styles for large-scale enterprisesoftware systems
Andersson, J.; Johnson, P.
Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2001. EDOC apos;01. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International
Volume , Issue , 2001 Page(s):224 - 236
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/EDOC.2001.950442
Summary:A predominant problem in the management of large-scale enterprise
software systems is application integration. Despite the considerable
efforts spent on the development of new standards and technologies for
software interoperation, the integration of systems that originally were
not designed to interact with each other is a major undertaking,
requiring in-depth knowledge of existing systems, incorporation of
integration products, and development and/or parameterization of various
kinds of adapters and gateways. The article presents the concept of
architectural integration styles, i.e. architectural styles describing
software structures of integration solutions for enterprise software
systems. The article further proposes an approach for selection of
styles based on the characteristics of the existing software
applications and the desired quality attributes of the integrated
system. A number of architectural integration styles for enterprise
systems are presented, and a case study of the style selection process
applied to a mid-sized Swedish electricity retailer is described
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