EAI

Application Integration is a common feature of most large systems. Modern computing systems rarely exist in a vacuum. ThoughtWorks has a wide range of experience in the integration of applications using a variety of technologies and techniques, in fact some of our consultants are widely regarded as world class experts in the subject and have written some of the de-facto standard texts on the subject.

Our approach to such projects varies depending on the needs of the individual engagement, we have done large-scale application integration using most of the modern integration platforms, as well as bespoke integrations using Open Source technologies. The complexity of our integration projects ranges from large-scale implementations of Service Oriented Architectures to relatively simple point-to-point single integrations. We design our solutions to meet your specific needs.

Dave Farley, ThoughtWorks Technical Architect, gives us an example:

"One of our recent projects involved integration with a variety of systems, two internal systems and four systems belonging to other organisations. We developed, using Agile evolutionary techniques, a sophisticated Service Oriented Architecture which formed the core of the system.

For external communications we implemented adaptors to our 'Information Bus' for communications with these external systems. The adaptors used a variety of EAI techniques and technologies, depending on the needs of the system we were integrating with. One system used WebServices, using an open-source toolkit, another used a commercial EAI vendor's infrastructure to handle messaging and message-mapping.

Overall the resulting system was very flexible, and highly modular, reducing development time and costs and making the evolution of the system as a whole straight-forward."

Some of our published texts on EAI:

Enterprise Integration Patterns, Gregor Hohpe

"5 stars, The best technical book of 2004", David Bridgeland, Sterling, VA USA
"5 stars, An excellent book which will become a standard reference", A.K.Johnston, UK
"5 stars, Best practise messaging and system integration", Matthew Rawlings, UK
(ISBN: 978-0321200686)

Developing Enterprise Web Services, James Webber

"5 stars, Best coverage on the topic", Ian Loe, NY USA
"5 stars, The most comprehensive book on enterprise web services", Palo Alto, CA USA )
(ISBN: 978-0131401600 )

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