Computer system, method, and business method for integrating an e-commerce application with a back-end business processing application

摘要

An apparatus, method, and method for doing business allow easily integrating a web-enabled front-end application with a back-end business processing application, such as a J.D. Edwards OneWorld application. The e-commerce application and the back-end business processing application each include a message queue adapter that defines inbound and outbound queues that are used to pass XML messages. An integration node is coupled to the inbound and outbound queues for the web-enabled front-end application, and is also coupled to the inbound and outbound queues for the business processing application. When the integration node receives an XML message in a first format from the front-end application, it converts the XML message to an XML message in a second format compatible with the back-end application, and sends the converted XML message to the back-end application. Similarly, the integration node converts XML messages received from the back-end application in the second format to XML messages in the first format for the front-end application. In this manner a web-enabled front-end may be easily integrated with a non-web-enabled back-end system.