--- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the systems do not expose their communication points via a WS or > REST interface and somebody has to do some work to put them on and > connect internally, this is the 3-rd party work, this is > integration.
Exposing communication points is an integration activity. The only reason to expose a communication point is to allow one or more external components to integrate with you. > If systems can communicate via WS or REST w/o additional "hooking", > the interfaces are natural. It just means that the developers of the systems did the integration for you. Someone, somewhere had to figure out how system X will interact with system Y and then did the work necessary to make it happen. To me, that's integration work. -Rob
