Summary

This chapter provided a unique insight into the topic of application infrastructure by reinforcing the urgency for an organization to embrace a standards-based, flexible, and extensible application infrastructure strategy. It also explained how that strategy can be derived using techniques such as recognizing infrastructure patterns, developing a technology taxonomy, and identifying enterprise application integration (EAI) types.

This chapter concluded with a discussion of the first unified, simplified, and extensible framework for application infrastructure: BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0.