Various types of application integration have grown up over the years, and each of these and other integration practices have their own adherents speaking their own languages and pursuing their own agendas. The result can be something of an oxymoron: islands of integration. Furthermore, the emergence of cloud computing, SOA, the widespread use of open source and the melding of application-to-application (A2A) have all impacted how enterprises think about application infrastructure.

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