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<abstract>
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<title>Abstract</title>
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<para>In complex IT environments it is necessary to integrate
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different information systems with each other, exchange data
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between
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tools and automate actions and function calls depending
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on events
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arising from user interaction. To meet the requirements
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of
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integration building usually means to implement APIs and to
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create
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tool-to-tool bridges. Web Services can help to clean up
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bridges into
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interfaces as well as to abstract functions from
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their underlying
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platform and implementation.</para>
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<para>These are the major goals of the loosely coupled
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integration
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strategy which is in turn one essential idea of a
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service-oriented
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architecture (SOA).</para>
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<para>provide a low level set of functions and web services.
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These can
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be orchestrated into services and used in business
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processes which
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make up the execution part of a SOA
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environment.</para>
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<para>is an add-on to XBridgeNG 2.0. It runs standalone or in
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combination with XBridgeNG. Pure XBridgeNG has two
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components:</para>
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<para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>XML Schema for item based data types (e.g. tickets
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from a bug
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tracker system or a database record)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Set of Apache Ant tasks to function as a bridge
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between the
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XBridgeNG XML format at legacy 3rd party
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software (e.g. HP Quality
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Center, Serena TeamTrack,
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...)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The add Web Services (SOAP) wrapper around Apache Ant
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tasks
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(since XBridgeNG 2.0)</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>The current focus is on file-based operations. do not
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contain an
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integration server or a process execution
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engine.</para>
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</abstract>
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