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This chapter details the strategies laid out as guidelines for the design of the Ikasan Enterprise Integration Platform.
The nature of an integration platform is such that the integration requirements for one application are likely to be repeated, either in part or whole for subsequent application integration solutions. It would seem foolish to implement the same artefacts over and over again; or, in the case where requirements differ only slightly, distort the implementation of one to meet the requirements of others. This approach would not require many application integration solutions before the implementation became an unstable, tightly coupled mash of technologies. The requirement to provide similar services across a range of solutions must result in a common approach for each solution. This common approach must allow each integration solution’s requirements to be met, but in a standard approach utilising and extending existing common core functionality.