Architectural Design of a Component-Based Application Integration Framework

Traditional application integration techniques have their problems. Some tools are too complex and vendor-specific, some integration approaches are very ad hoc so that integration developers have a lot of work to do for each component application to be integrated into, and the process is difficult to control. In this paper, we present a component based lightweight application integration framework which is extensible, free from the drawbacks of traditional integration techniques, provides an extensible, reusable and dependable application integration environment for integration developers. Key-Words: application integration framework, component-based method, design pattern, enterprise application integration