WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for z/OS, Version 6.2.0 Operating Systems: z/OS


Business integration architecture and patterns

A typical business integration project involves coordinating several different IT assets, potentially running on different platforms, and having been developed at different times using different technologies. Being able to easily manipulate and exchange information with a diverse set of components is a major technical challenge. It is best addressed by the programming model used to develop business integration solutions.

This section introduces the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and discusses patterns related to business integration. Patterns seem to permeate our lives. Sewing patterns, think-and-learn patterns for children, home construction patterns, wood-carving patterns, flight patterns, wind patterns, practice patterns in medicine, customer buying patterns, workflow patterns, design patterns in computer science, and many more exist.

Patterns have proven successful in helping solution designers and developers. Therefore, it is not surprising that we now have business integration patterns and enterprise integration patterns. There are a wide array of patterns that are applicable to business integration, including patterns for request and response routing, channel patterns (such as publish/subscribe), and many more. Abstract patterns provide a template for resolving a certain category of problems, whereas concrete patterns provide more specific indications of how to implement a specific solution. This section focuses on patterns that deal with data and service invocation, which are at the foundation of the programming model of the IBM® software strategy for WebSphere® business integration.


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