Data Transformation Engine Intelligent Business Integration Reference Guide

Intelligent Business Integration Reference Guide
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Chapter 2 - Integration Maps
The core components for any Mercator product-based application integration
solution are the maps. Maps are at work whether implementing:
♦ An asynchronous, event driven architecture
♦ A component or Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) architecture
♦ A synchronous, web-based architecture
♦ An application-embedded architecture
♦ A batch interface architecture
Maps provide a non-programmatic approach to the development of interfaces,
with pre-built functionality for connectivity, transformation, and routing. The
benefits of the same components prevailing for all integration models are that:
♦ Components can be created once and re-used many times for different types of
integration scenarios.
♦ The skills required to deploy these different models are consistent and re-
usable.