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Section I
Genesis of Cloudware
This section introduces the various milestones on the path to developing EAI
solutions for enterprises. Maintaining competitiveness in the face of chang-
ing business environments necessitated ways to reuse existing systems and
integrate them into the global, enterprise-wide information system must
be defined. The resulting integrated information systems will improve the
competitive advantage of the enterprises with a unified and efficient access
to information. Chapter 2 traces the genesis of the cloud to the network-
ing and Internetworking technologies of the 1980s. Chapter 3 describes the
concepts of distributed systems. Chapter 4 describes EAI methods and mod-
els. Chapter 5 deals with middleware and related integration technologies.
Finally, Chapter 6 introduces the reference architecture for enterprise J2EE
applications.