Chapter 5 Designing the integration Layer BXP Case Study BXP integration concepts enable the organization to integrate the data from a third- party application, so that different users logged in to a single portal could access their details, transactions, and accounts. The banking domain contains different third-party applications (master data management, core banking application, OTP and SMS gateway, third-party authorization application through LDAP server, etc.) to run the whole banking organization, as shown in Figure 5-6. Figure 5-6. BXP overview Integration services of a BXP integration layer have brokers, which communicate between BXP UI components and third-party services and systems. A BXP implements the well-known EIP and therefore offers a domain-specific language, standardized to integrate applications. As shown in Figure 5-7, account and transaction services are getting transformed. Account is the service exposed by the MDM system in JSON format over HTTP, whereas Transaction is the services exposed by the core banking system in XML format over HTTP. But the DXP UI application needs data 176