To support their business workflows and data exchange across several applications, companies need to integrate these applications. The main goal is to provide scalable and reliable data exchange between multiple enterprise applications with functions across multiple software packages with flexibility in using accounting software, CRM or E-Commerce package that suits the company' needs.

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There are typically two reasons in using application integration tools over using APIs:

• Evolving technology. Using application integration tools would easy the pain in performing the work in comparing in using APIs.
• Scalability of your corporate solution. When your company solution evolves, it's too difficult to use API in comparing a EAI tool. A typical API merely allows to implement a full featured communication exchnange with a third party application or component. From other side a suite of EAI services performs event exchange, routing, connectivities, and business workflows implementation

Below is a solution from Sun Microsystems - J2EE(TM) Connector Architecture that specifies a standard architecture for accessing resources in diverse Enterprise Information Systems (EIS).