This chapter covered significant material around Oracle application and process integration. After reading this chapter, you should have understood all the Oracle application and process integration products and frameworks, and how these products complement, and in some cases overlap with, each other. You now have a clear idea of when each of the solutions may be appropriate and how they work together, or, as in the case of the Oracle SOA Suite, form the foundation of other Oracle solutions like AIA. AIA is an important topic to cover as it is only about four years old and there are not even many articles, let alone books, on this topic.
Twenty years ago, most IT organizations handcoded any application and process integration needs on an as needed, one-off basis. The IT industry has come a long way in the last ten years in terms of functionality, performance, and out of the box capabilities for application and process integration products, frameworks, and tools. Ten years ago, products...