Introducing the common integration styles

When designing an integration architecture between two or more systems, the key challenge is how to actually achieve that. There are some common integration styles that architects should be familiar with. You need to become familiar with them and understand how and when to use each of them. In today's world, some of these integration styles have evolved and are used as part of modern enterprise integration platforms. Let's take a closer look at each of them.

File transfer

In this integration style, applications produce a file containing the data that other applications would consume. This file is normally in a format that can be read by all the target systems and shared to a repository that can be accessed by all concerned systems. These systems are responsible for transforming the file into any other format they are expecting, while the file's producer is responsible for generating the data files on regular intervals based...