I had the opportunity to give a talk last Wednesday night at VanDev Meetup (Vancouver’s Software Developer Network). Here is a quick summary of it.

In this talk, I have presented a few criteria to help developers and architects decide between using ready-made EAI tools versus custom built solutions. I have discussed the identification of contexts, patterns, topologies and decision factors that can help favor one approach or the other.

If you’re hesitating between walking the ad hoc coding path or the integration tool path for your integration projects, then keep reading as the following may help you.

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Are you looking to integrate on-premise applications with on-demand applications, such as Salesforce.com?

Join me for a technical webinar on integrating Salesforce.com with Mule. During this 30-minute event, I will demonstrate how to take an enterprise application integration (EAI) data synchronization pattern and extend it to integrate with data in the cloud.

Logistics:
Tuesday, February 3^rd 2009
9am PT / noon ET
Click here to register now!

This webinar is primarily for architects and developers who are dealing with integrating on-premise applications with on-demand applications leveraging the Mule ESB.

If you have difficulty registering for this event, email: webinar@mulesource.com.