Angeles
University
Foundation
SIA01 – Software Integration and Architecture
MODULE 2
Integration Patterns
Adriane S. Castro, LPT
Professor, SIA01
Module Overview
Integration Patterns
▪ Introduction to Integration Patterns
▪ Integration Styles Part 1: Shared Databases
▪ Integration Styles Part 2: Messaging
▪ Integration Styles Part 3: Remote Procedure Invocation
▪ Integration Styles Part 4: File Transfer
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INTEGRATION PATTERNS
Enterprise Integration
▪ Enterprise integration
- the task of making disparate applications work
together
to produce a unified set of functionality
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APPLICATION
INTEGRATION CRITERIA
Application Integration Criteria
▪ APPLICATION COUPLING
Integrated applications should minimize their
dependencies on each other so that each can evolve
without causing problems to the others.
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ INTRUSIVENESS
When integrating an application into an enterprise,
developers should strive to minimize both changes
to the application and the amount of integration
code needed.
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ TECHNOLOGY SELECTION
Different integration techniques require varying
amounts of specialized software and hardware.
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ DATA FORMAT
Integrated applications must agree on the format of
the data they exchange.
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ DATA TIMELINESS
Integration should minimize the length of time
between when one application decides to share
some data and other applications have that data.
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ DATA OR FUNCTIONALITY
Many integration solutions allow applications to
share not only data but functionality as well,
because sharing of functionality can provider better
abstraction between the applications
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ REMOTE COMMUNICATION
Computer processing is typically synchronous—that
is, a procedure waits while its subprocedure
executes..
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Application Integration Criteria
▪ RELIABILITY
Remote connections are not only slow, but they are
much less reliable than a local function call. When a
procedure calls a subprocedure inside a single
application, it’s a given that the subprocedure is
available.
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Integration Styles: Shared Databases
▪ SQL - Structured Query Language
▪ ODBC - Open Database Connect
▪ JDBC – Java Database Connectivity
▪ OLE-DB – Object Linking and Embedding Database
▪ RDA - Remote Database Access
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Shared Database: Advantage of
Integration Style
▪ Near-universal integration
▪ System abstraction
▪ System Decoupling
▪ Ease of Integration
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Shared Database: Disadvantage of
Integration Style
▪ Doesn’t work well with ORMs
▪ Performance bottleneck issues
▪ Schema change issue
▪ Data Ownership
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Integration Styles: Messaging
▪ JMS – Java Message Service
▪ MSMQ – Microsoft Message Queue
▪ AMQP – Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
▪ SNS – Amazon Simple Notification Service
▪ SQS – Amazon Simple Queue Service
▪ STOMP – Simple Text Oriented Messaging Protocol
▪ SMPP – Short Message Peer-to-Peer – SMS Messaging
▪ MQTT – MQ Telemetry Transport – M2M/IOT Messaging
▪ JT/400 – AS400 Data Queue
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Messaging: Advantage of Integration
Style
▪ Highly decoupled systems
▪ Guaranteed delivery
▪ Async communications
▪ Broadcast capabilities
▪ Ease of scalability
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Messaging: Disadvantage of Integration
Style
▪ Integration beyond firewall
▪ Implementation complexity
▪ Testing complexity
▪ Cross platform standards
▪ Async error handling
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Integration Styles: Remote Procedure
▪ REST – Representational State Transfer
▪ SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol
▪ RMI – Remote Method Invocation
▪ CORBA – Common Object Request Broker Architecture
▪ Websockets – Hixie, Hybi, RFC/Request for Comments
▪ CGI – Common Gateway Interface
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Remote Procedure: Advantage of
Integration Style
▪ Data encapsulation and ownership
▪ External systems integration
▪ Mature frameworks and tools
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Remote Procedure: Disadvantage of
Integration Style
▪ Tight system coupling
▪ Async communications
▪ Broadcast capabilities
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Integration Styles: File Transfer
▪ FTP/SFTP – File Transfer Protocol
▪ HDFS – Hadoop Distributed File System
▪ SCP – Secure Copy Protocol
▪ SMB – Server Message Block
▪ CIFS – Common Internet File System
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File Transfer: Advantage of Integration
Style
▪ Universal Integration Style
▪ Integration Simplicity
▪ System Abstraction
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File Transfer: Disadvantage of Integration
Style
▪ Error Processing
▪ Data Synchronization Timeliness
▪ Data-only Transfer
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