Enterprise Application Integration with SOA and ESBs

Next IASA Meeting

Thursday June 15th, 2006 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Snacks & soda will be served

Where: FGM, 12021 Sunset Hills Road Suite 400, Reston, VA 20190

Direction to FGM: From Dulles Toll Road (267) take exit to Reston Parkway, turn right after ramp, take first left at Sunset Hills Road, take second left into parking lot, park on right side.

Topic: "Enterprise Application Integration with SOA and ESBs"

Abstract: Enterprise Integration with SOA and ESBs Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is gaining steam due to a number of business drivers including mergers and acquisitions, re-organizations and cost-cutting. At the same time that the demand for EAI is increasing, the expectations from an EAI solution are higher and conditions such as lower costs, reduced invasiveness on existing applications, higher scalability and enhanced manageability are casually placed in the requirements documents. The buzz from the industry as to the preferred approach to EAI for satisfying these expectations is the use of a Service Oriented Architecture-based solution.

In this talk, we will look into how SOA can be utilized to achieve integration of enterprise applications. In this process of understanding how SOA can help with EAI, we will look at some related concepts and technologies, such as the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard, and bring everything together into a solution through the use of Enterprise Integration Patterns. Before closing the session we will take a look at the Mule open source project, which provides an excellent low-cost framework for enterprise application integration.

Speaker: Odysseas Pentakalos