Design Tips for Integrating Your Java/J2EE Applications with 3rd Party Software Products

Those of us writing Java/J2EE applications are commonly asked to interface with other applications we don't control. Sometimes, these are other custom applications written and managed by other teams. Sometimes, these are vended applications. Often, these applications are on a different platform (e.g. .Net) and sometimes not even designed to be integrated easily with custom applications. I refer to these types of interfaces as external [application] interfaces . External interfaces like these a...