List of Figures

• 1-1 AIA Features
• 1-2 An Integration Flow
• 1-3 Integration Styles
• 1-4 Decision Tree
• 1-5 Example of a Requester Application Interacting Directly with a Provider Application
• 1-6 Example of Integration Flow Leveraging Provider Services
• 1-7 Example Using Canonical Model-based Virtualization
• 1-8 Point-to-Point Integration Using Oracle Data Integrator
• 1-9 Relationships Between Business Processes, Business Activities, and Business Tasks
• 1-10 Conceptual View of AIA
• 1-11 Elements in the Shared Services Inventory
• 1-12 Process Services
• 1-13 Activity Services
• 1-14 Data Services
• 1-15 Utility Services
• 1-16 Process Service implementation
• 1-17 An EBS Enabling the Loose-coupling of Requesters with Actual Service Providers
• 1-18 Example of an EBF Orchestrating the Flow from a Source to a Target
• 1-19 ABCS in the Integration Flow
• 1-20 ABCS implementation
• 3-1 Entity Services
• 3-2 EBS Logical Components for Process Services
• 3-3 EBS Physical Implementation of Process Services
• 3-4 EBS Enables Loose Coupling of Requesters with Service Providers
• 3-5 Example of GetAccount EBS
• 3-6 Participating Application Request Initiates a Business Process
• 3-7 Invocation of Process Order
• 3-8 EBS Flow
• 3-9 Order EBS Showing Fire-and-Forget Scenario
• 3-10 One-way Request and One-way Response
• 4-1 VETORO Pattern
• 4-2 Requester-Specific ABCS Implementing the Request-Response Style Interaction Pattern
• 4-3 Requester-Specific ABCS Implementing the Fire-and-Forget Style Interaction Pattern
• 4-4 Provider-Specific ABCS implementing Request-Response Style Interaction Pattern
• 4-5 Provider-Specific ABCS Interacting with Fire-and-Forget Interaction Style
• 6-1 Integration Flow - Extensibility Points
• 6-2 Routing Extensions
• 7-1 Illustration of Versioning