B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

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B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

Product Description
(Pearson Education) A guide to the concepts, technologies, and techniques that make e-Business work, offering a thorough explanation of how middleware layers work. Includes in-depth coverage of the five types of B2B applications, and how to evaluate them for a particular organization. Softcover. DLC: Application software–Development. Amazon.com Review
Making business applications communicate across corporate boundaries can be complicated, which is why system architects usually coordinate such projects. B2B Application Integration explains some of the approaches these system architects can take to get application A to talk to database B and Web site C, without simultaneously allowing hacker yahoos in for a look around. David Linthicum surveys technologies generally, and also the products that implement them. He’s a fine teacher, able to clarify complicated processes with words and illustrations. He’s also well informed enough to express and support opinions on how various technologies are limited, which products live up to their claims, and how to implement specific mechanisms for application integration.

In a typical section on an application integration technology, the book introduces terms and explains the relationships among the pieces of the technology. Block diagrams and flow charts show which pieces talk to which others. Where appropriate, competing technologies are explained side by side–for example, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML). There’s very little code included, other than the barest examples for illustrative purposes. This is a book for architects and planners, not implementers. As such, it’s an excellent survey of software integration technologies. –David Wall

Topics covered:

Tools for making different applications and database management systems speak to one another, within and across corporate borders
Various approaches to the integration problem (data integration, business process integration, and so on)
Middleware
Remote procedure calls (RPC)
Message queuing
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
RosettaNet
Microsoft BizTalk
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise

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5 Responses to “B2B Application Integration: e-Business-Enable Your Enterprise”

Daivid S. Linthicum Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
“Avoid Linthicum like the plague, August 28, 2004

Reviewer: Tech Manager – See all my reviews

Not only can’t he write, he can’t even post reviews of his own books anonymously. And what does he man by “My copy already appears a bit raged out”? ”

This guy is an idiot. He’s posted negative reviews on two of my books, but yet continues to purchase them. This is obviously somebody I fired; I’m sure for good reason.

Any chance you can come out from behind that handle “Tech Manager” and let me know who you are. I suspect I won’t get a response. It must be horrible going through life as a coward.

Anyway, the review of my book: It’s a good book, a took a lot of time to research the technology angles. It was written for the those that need both deep and rudimentary information, a good overview of the topic.

Rating: 5 / 5
Tech Manager Says:
January 24th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Not only can’t he write, he can’t even post reviews of his own books anonymously. And what does he man by “My copy already appears a bit raged out”?
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 1:26 am
In looking for a good book on middleware, application integration, and B2B integration, I found that this book provides most of the information I needed. This book offers both strategic and technical information, and I found that helpful with both putting a rather confusing paradigm in the proper perspective, as well as enough new technical information to figure out what works where. The bottom line is that the strategic information is worth the price of the book, and the technical information makes this book mandatory for anybody who has to integrate two or more applications. Read this book first, it will make your life a whole lot easier, it did mine.
Rating: 5 / 5
Sherynella Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 2:50 am
The good thing about this book is that it the systems architect orientation.
What I miss is the lack on an integration advice depending on the sort/ type of B2B exchanges:

– How do we integrate in the Ariba, Commerce One (hosted) types of B2B exchange networks.

– How can we apply B2B integration with in the not hosted BroadVision, ATG -type of approach. Including a planning & implementation that really work.

I also miss a classification of the current B2B application integration landscape in terms of vendors and tools. In Chapter 19 there is a VERY good explanation on the 5 types of B2B application integration approaches(data-oriented, application oriented, process integration oriented etc etc). I would like to have more elaboration on the mapping of these approaches on the current supporting tools & vendors…The pro’s and con’s of Neon, ACTA, Bea’s e-Link, Mercator, Viewlocity, etc etc.

Page 342, Selecting a B2B Technology is described in a good way, but more elaboration on the vendors landscape would me nice.

Still, I really like this book. Chapter 12 (Java middleware standards, the role of J2ee) Chapter 17 (Using XSLT) are very useful. Despite the earlier reviews, I consider this book as more than Volume 2 on David’s earlier book.

I would really advice all software developers and leading architects to buy this book: If you need a good and in-depth understanding of B2B integration approaches, this book should be on your desk!
Rating: 5 / 5
Anonymous Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:32 am
I’m currently using this book for a graduate level systems integration course that I teach at the University of Detroit Mercy. I couldn’t be happier. While there are areas that get a bit technical for those who have not worked in IT, it provides all of the information necessary to make educated decisions about numerous B2B solutions. Coupled with the book “Building B2B Applications with XML”, the reader has everything they need.
Rating: 5 / 5