Scott Simmons

Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. In the past, traditional B2B solutions have fallen short of market expectations for community integration due to scalability issues, lack of transaction visibility across the trading community, and minimal partner participation in community management. To solve the tough challenges of B2B, new integration solutions must address these requirements to provide an optimal foundation for trading partner collaboration. This article discusses the concept of community integration and offers an architectural overview of how WebSphere Business Integration Connect can enable the rapid implementation of trading communities. What Is Community Integration? Community integration is about extending integration beyond the enterprise. It defines a document exchange framework that ... (more)

SOA Web Services Journal – WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture

The emergence of service-oriented frameworks results from the evolution of software development and implementation over the last 20 years. Our industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard-to-manage client/server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of applications, speeds development of new solutions, and addresses the requirements of business stakeholders better. The concepts embodied in SOA enable an enterprise to integrate its business processes a... (more)

IBM WebSphere SOA Framework and Java J2EE Web Services

Last month's article introduced the WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture, as well as an SOA framework and some services. This month's concludes by looking at more services and showing the architecture in action.  Development Services The WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture rigorously recognizes the need for a comprehensive software development platform as core. It's important that the development platform encompasses the entire lifecycle of software development, including requirements analysis, modeling and design, component development, testing, and code maintena... (more)

Community Integration and XML

Community integration elevates collaborative commerce to a new level of integration between enterprises. XML-based document exchanges between companies impose new challenges on organizations building a B2B community integration solution. In the past, traditional interenterprise solutions have fallen short of market expectations for community integration due to scalability issues, lack of document visibility across the trading community, and minimal partner participation in community management. To solve the tough challenges of XML-based document exchange, new integration solutio... (more)