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Introduction to Application Integration
WebLogic Integration provides a standards-based integration solution for connecting applications both within and between enterprises. Specifically, this solution provides a means to integrate applications by defining communication endpoints, either in a process flow, using WebLogic Integration Studio, or in custom code.
WebLogic Integration provides the following tools for integrating applications:
By using there tools, integrate all your enterprise information systems (EIS). Typical IT organizations use several highly specialized applications. Without a common integration platform, integration of such applications requires extensive, highly specialized development efforts.
WebLogic Integration makes use of adapters to establish a single enterprise-wide framework for integrating current or future applications. Adapters greatly simplify your integration efforts because they allow you to integrate each application with a single application server instead of integrating each application to every other application.
WebLogic Integration allows you to use these adapters to define business-focused interfaces to an EIS called application views. Application views provide a simple, self-describing, consistent interface to services and events in the application. Application views make use of the adapter for an EIS. Unlike adapter users, application view users are not required to have intimate knowledge of the EIS or its client interface. As a result, users who are not programmers, such as technical analysts, can use application views. These same users may be incapable of using an adapter directly, due to lack of familiarity with the EIS.
The following sections give a brief overview of each of the application integration tools provided by WebLogic Integration. For details, see Developing Adapters and Using Application Integration.
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