Semi-automated Construction of Messaging-Based Enterprise Application Integration Solutions

Enterprise application integration, i.e. an endeavor to make independently developed information systems cooperate, is an important topic of enterprise computing for decades. Despite many efforts, both in industry and academic area, integration solutions development is still often a costly, error-prone process. The goal of presented work is to make messaging-based integration solutions development and maintenance more efficient. In comparison to existing model-driven approaches that aim to generate code for integration solutions we are trying to reach a more advanced goal: to automate not only the code generation but the detailed design as well. In order to do this, we use artificial intelligence techniques, namely planning and constraint satisfaction. In this work we present a set of methods that – for a given integration solution abstract design and non-functional requirements (like throughput, availability, monitoring, minimal communication middleware usage, and so on) – create a suitable solution design and in some cases an executable code as well.