JTang synergy: A service oriented architecture for enterprise application integration

Over the last decade, the architectures and technologies used for enterprise application integration have been improved, and many companies have proposed varied solutions for integration. But these traditional approaches have some disadvantages such as high cost, poor flexibility and vendor lock-in. And now, the service oriented architecture, advanced in loose-couple, low cost and high integration ability, is thought to be the most advisable approach for business integration. In this paper, we introduce an SOA based enterprise application integration platform named JTang Synergy. JTang, Synergy is composed of a basic integration platform, a supported platform, administration tools and development tools. As the core of JTang Synergy, the basic integration platform is implemented according to Java Business Integration which makes JTang Synergy more flexible and vendor-neutral. And we employed an event-based enterprise service bus to realize integration. The supported framework and the tools ease JTang Synergy to develop and integrate services. And a scenario is introduced to illustrate the integration process using JTang Synergy.