The Combo for Successful Application Integrations is on its Way!
It makes sense for us to begin the story with the mention of nothing other than the Application Integration Architecture release 3.0 (AIA 3.0) which is going to be out shortly. Application Integration Architecture is an integration solution for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across enterprise applications. It offers prebuilt solutions at the data, process and user interface levels delivering a more complete process solution to business end users. With handful of productivity tooling components, reference process models, infrastructure components, methodologies that guide us through the SOA development lifecycle and many more, AIA 3.0 is going to stand out as superior reference architecture for implementing best practice Service Oriented Architecture in Enterprise Application Integrations.
AIA 3.0 is powered by Fusion Middleware 11g which is based on WebLogic Server platform. WebLogic is a powerful Application Server platform which enables application integrations by way of offering best in class capabilities for deploying, testing and managing the composite applications across its life cycle stages.
AIA 3.0 is going to be the major release after AIA 2.5 that got released during last October. The Statement of Direction for Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack 3.0 that got published in Dec 2009 indicates that AIA 3.0 leverages SOA Suite 11g components and other key FMW 11g features including Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER), Oracle B2B etc., and also has a support for Oracle Service Bus (OSB), the industry’s leading service bus.
People like us who have already started exploring the territories of SOA 11g are probably experiencing the same level of heightened excitement for AIA 3.0 as that exists when the blockbusters of Columbia Pictures flash on our screen. Yes, the excitement is all about the next big title “AIA 3.0”, to be released in the early half of this year. So, let us keep our fingers crossed for this magnificent event.
At this juncture, we are actively making our wish list for AIA 3.0 to test our luck when the release will happen.
However, you have to stay tuned to know the things that top our wish list which we will cover in our next blog (hope this is creating the same excitement that we mentioned above).
