Integrating different applications

The design of integrated business processes consisting of several applications is becoming increasingly central to the work of IT departments. There are two different scenarios to examine here:

• The UTM application represents the logic of the business process (or of a sub-process) and another application is to be called from the UTM application as a service. In this case, the UTM application can access a Java Enterprise Edition application via BeanConnect.

• The program units of the UTM application provide services for the business process applications.

These two scenarios are described in more detail in the following sections.