Chapter 7: Technology Options

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Overview

These technology option recommendations are guided by the demands of reuse, flexibility, and interoperability, and subsequently are based on the open industry standards outlined by Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Many of the choices continue to evolve and expand as the J2EE specification matures to include a broader view of the enterprise architecture. These recommendations are based on the J2EE1.3 specification and parts of the J2EE1.4 specification.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• How to select the appropriate integration technology

• XML as a technology for data exchange

• Web services

• J2EE Connector Architecture

• Asynchronous messaging with JMS

• Message-oriented middleware

• Flow languages

• Other integration technologies

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