Completing the picture with business automation
This section is focused on another big use case of enterprise middleware. While the previous section was about integrating applications with each other by translating data formats and protocols, in this section, we are going to see how to decouple the business logic from the application code.
What do we mean by that? Basically, in each application, there is a part of the behavior that may be subjected to a change periodically. We are not talking about the business logic as a whole, but about the specific subsections that are likely known in advance as being required to change due to some specific conditions, such as new business requirements. This kind of logic is usually grouped into two categories:
- Rules, which include all kinds of calculations and algorithms that are specific to the business domain and can be isolated, changed, and fine-tuned in the application life cycle. We already introduced the concept of business rules...
