I curious to how different people solve integration of systems. I have a feeling that the last years more and more work has gone into integrating systems and that this kind of work need will increase as well. I wondering if you solve it developing your own small services that are then connected or if you use some sort of product (WebSph...
We have a few projects that involve building an application that is composed of maybe 50% custom functionality, but then pulls in, say, a wiki, a forum, and other components that are "wheels" that have already been invented that we do not wish to re-write from scratch. These third-party applications usually have their own databases, the...
Ok where I work we have a fairly substantial number of systems written over the last couple of decades that we maintain. The systems are diverse in that multiple operating systems (Linux, Solaris, Windows), Multiple Databases (Several Versions of oracle, sybase and mysql), and even multiple languages (C, C++, JSP, PHP, and a host of ot...
I have limited knowledge of Java-based technologies, and for business enforced reasons, I may need to decide whether WebLogic Integration (WLI) or Oracle Service Bus (OSB) is the better choice for integrating a small number of standalone systems together. Both products seem capable of similar tasks, though in one case (WLI) the integrat...