To compete effectively in e-business, an enterprise must meet two challenges:
A business integration system addresses both these needs with flexibility and extensibility.
At the highest-level, the WebSphere business integration system consists of an integration broker and a set of adapters that allow heterogeneous business applications to exchange data through the coordinated transfer of information, in the form of business objects.
Figure 1 shows a simplified representation of a WebSphere business integration system.
Figure 1. High-level view of a
WebSphere business integration system