Figure 4: Integration-relevant
aspects of a business process that
can be specified already at design
time
We will explain in detail the design
time-relevant concepts and
procedures in the chapter
Designing
Integration Content.
2.4.2 Configuration Time
At configuration time, an integration
expert (for example, an integration
consultant) configures the
integration
scenario specified at design time
for a specific system landscape to
enable the scenario to run in this
system
landscape.
The first configuration task is to
identify, the “players” of the game
at runtime – the systems that
actually
communicate with each other – and
relate them to the corresponding
process components.
The following figure illustrates the
relationship between the entities
defined at design time (above, the
communication of two process
components including the entities
introduced with figure 3) and those
relevant
at configuration time (below, for an
exemplary system landscape). The
different colors of the systems
indicate the different technical
characteristics the systems may be
based on:
Figure 5: Relationship between
design time and configuration time
entities
Based on this assignment, an
integration expert specifies further
details at configuration time on
how the
messages are to be exchanged
between the systems:
􀁸 How the messages are routed by
the integration broker from a
sender system to one or multiple
receiver systems
􀁸 How the individual systems (each
may be based on different
technical characteristics) can be
connected to the integration broker
(connectivity and adapters)
􀁸 Which security-relevant settings
apply to the data exchange (for
example, if messages are secured
using digital signatures)
The configuration time-relevant
concepts and procedures are
explained in detail in the chapter