Click here to view the press conference. Today, organizations platform decisions are driven by their need to make the Internet a central and vital element of their business. Everything starts with the distributed infrastructure on which organizations build their e-business systems. This infrastructure dictates performance, scalability, flexibility, and quality of service. It determines how other elements of the e-business platform talk to each other, and it provides support for transactions and security and management.
Application servers are essential to any e-business strategy.
Java is the overwhelming choice of organizations building e-business applications, and Enterprise JavaBeans provide the component model that these organizations demand. Enterprise Application Integration . EAI helps organizations to connect existing internal systems. These connections are typically messaging based, since this kind of integration tends to be more loosely coupled. They typically rely on adapters, which in turn employ messaging or RPC-style middleware technologies.