architectural-diagrams

Web Application - Data services can be provided in a web context directly to end users. They can take the form of subcomponents of larger applications, such as servlets or portlets, or be complete applications in themselves. Click image for more... Web Services - Data services can be delivered in a web context to other software components. Such services could be published by means of explicit web-borne protocols like SOAP or XML-RPC, or by other network technologies and protocols such as J2EE, CORBA, .NET remoting, etc. Click image for more... Plug Ins - Data services can be delivered as a plug-in to other software components.Such plug-ins might conform to a published specification, such as Excel add-ins or AssetBuilder models, or they may be completely custom-built procedural or class libraries. Click image for more... Desktop Applications - Data services can be delivered within a complete end-to-end desktop application targeted at end users. Click image for more... Bus Components - Data services can be delivered by a component that participates as a peer upon an EAI bus.  Such bus components may access original data sources directly or they may modify and generate messages flowing on the bus. Examples of such bus architectures include JMS, Tibco, Sonic, etc. Click image for more... Code Generator/Metadata Component - Data services can be delivered as raw code produced by a code generator for use within other software components. For example, SQL statements or XSLT transformations might be generated from a high-level data model description. Click image for more... Bus Components - Data services can be delivered by a component that participates as a peer upon an EAI bus.  Such bus components may access original data sources directly or they may modify and generate messages flowing on the bus. Examples of such bus architectures include JMS, Tibco, Sonic, etc. Click image for more... Desktop Applications - Data services can be delivered within a complete end-to-end desktop application targeted at end users. Click image for more...