B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

260 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
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Administration Tool
Workflow Manager
Message
Warehouses
Components of
Integration Broker
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Figure 9.4. — Components of an integration broker
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From a systems architecture point-of-view, the ideal place for these
components is within integration brokers, as it would provide a single
point of integration.
Here is an elaborated discussion of the components of an integration
broker:
9.3.1. Messaging services
Messaging is defined as the process by which the source sends business
events or data as strings of bytes to a destination, asynchronously or
synchronously, over a communications pathway.
At the core of an integration broker lies its ability to support
mission-critical communications that include:
• Capabilities for asynchronous and synchronous communication;
• Message queuing;
• Message flow control;
• Publish-and-subscribe;
• Filtering;