6.11 Summary

This chapter has described a set of design choices, guidelines, and recommendations for integrating enterprise information systems into enterprise applications. These guidelines enable an Application Component Provider to develop an enterprise application based on its overall functional and system requirements for enterprise information system integration. The focus has been on accessing enterprise information system resources from the component, using tools to simplify and reduce application development effort involved in accessing enterprise information systems, getting and managing connections to enterprise information systems, and supporting the security requirements of an application.

The current version of the J2EE platform provides full support for database systems through the JDBC API. In the next version of J2EE platform, the Connector architecture will support integration with enterprise information systems other than database systems.