http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2011, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I50/0511-3.php As previously stated, the data model in EAI deserves a separate chapter. A common mistake in systems integration is to transfer their job is requirements as the systems communicate. It is common to hear from integration teams, "they are only the pipe, and don't care about what's going on inside it". In fact, the integration concerns the exchange of information (represented by your data) between systems. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-jlberg.php#When:05.18.11 http://www.soamag.com/I49/0411-2.php This article is intended to present the relationship Between Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) - Part I. Some people have recently said that EAI is dead, it was than replaced by SOA, creating some confusion and enforcing a culture of "forgeting all the past". This is causing a lot of problems and pushing SOA implementation to a complete failure. SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-jlberg.php#When:04.12.11