Invisible Deployment of Integration Processes

Abstract. Due to the changing scope of data management towards the management of heterogeneous and distributed systems and applications, integration processes gain in importance. This is particularly true for those processes used actions of workflow-based integration tasks; these are widely applied in practice. In such scenarios, a typical IT infrastructure comprises multiple integration systems with overlapping functionalities. The major problems in this area are high development effort, low portability and inefficiency. Therefore, in this paper, we introduce the vision of invisible deployment that addresses the virtualization of multiple, heterogeneous, physical integration systems into a single logical integration system. This vision comprises several challenging issues in the fields of deployment aspects as well as runtime aspects. Here, we describe those challenges, discuss possible solutions and present a detailed system architecture for that approach. As a result, the develop...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICEIS
• Authors: Matthias Böhm, Dirk Habich, Wolfgang Lehner, Uwe Wloka
• Keywords: ICEIS 2009, Information Systems, Integration Processes Gain, Integration System, Workflow-based Integration Tasks