Enterprise Integration for Beginners

Messaging has been the fundamental communication mechanism which has been succeeded all over the world. Either it is human to human, machine to human or machine to machine, messaging has been the single common method of communication. There are 2 fundamental mechanisms we used to exchange messages between 2(or more)parties. Synchronous messaging Asynchronous messaging Synchronous messaging is used when the message sender expects a response to the message within a specified time period and waiting for that response to carry out his next task. Basically he “blocks” until he receives the response. Asynchronous messaging means that sender does not expect an immediate response and does not “blocks” waiting for the response. There can be a response or not, but the sender will carry out his remaining tasks. Out of the above mentioned technologies, Asynchronous messaging has been the widely used mechanism when it comes to machine to machine communication where 2 compute...

History of Enterprise Integration The history of enterprise integration goes back to early computer era where we had computers only in large enterprises. The early requirements came from the concept of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) where it requires a system to plan and control production and material flows. With the growth of the businesses and the interactions among different 3rd party organizations, MRP has been evolved into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems where they are responsible for much more functionalities to bridge the different departments of the enterprise like accounting, finance, engineering, product management and many more. Proprietary ERP solutions were dealing with so many complex use cases and failed really big in some cases. With these lessons, people realized that there should be a better to way to build the enterprise IT infrastructure beyond the ERP systems. Integration and SOA Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) comes into the...