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System Integration Approaches

There are several integration pattern available for implementation. You can find a brief overview illustrated below:

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Common Software Integration Patterns

These define how components interact and integrate:

Message-Based Integration

  • Messaging
  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Fire and Forget
  • Broker
  • ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
  • Hub-Spoke

Service-Based Integration

  • Microservices
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Self-Contained-System
  • Cloud

Remote Procedure Invocation

  • REST
  • SOAP
  • RPC
  • WS-*

Data-Centric Integration

  • Decision Support System (DWH)

Architectural Styles & Frameworks

These define the structure of applications:

Layered / Component-Based

  • Layer or Tier-based
  • Microkernel / Hexagon / Plugin
  • Model-View-Controller (MVC)
  • Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
  • Model-View-Presenter (MVP)

Distributed Architectures

  • Client-Server
  • Peer-to-Peer

Centralized Control

  • Master-Slave
  • Blackboard

Enterprise-Level Systems

  • Embedded System
  • Real-Time / Live System

Deployment & Execution Environment

These define where and how integration happens:

  • Virtualization & Cloud-Based
    • Virtual Machine
    • Cloud
  • Device-Specific / Embedded Systems
    • Embedded
    • Mobile
  • Processing Models
    • Batch
    • Parallel
    • Real-Time