The extent of changes happening in application architecture should not be underestimated, as they are Gradual and sometimes unintentional, said Gartner. Their analysts have identified application trends changing business applications.

These are listed in the article at CXOToday, Excerpts from the same
Service-oriented architecture and event-driven architecture are becoming dominant design styles for business applications. Refactoring of applications from monolithic structures to sets of SOA modules and EDA modules is under way.

"New forms of middleware, especially enterprise service buses (ESBs) and application platform suites (APSs) would be coming into wider use to support needs of SOA and EDA applications," added Schulte VP & Analyst, Gartner. According to Gartner, by 2008, more than 40 % of large businesses would deploy a middleware appliance.

"Leading-edge projects which need high throughput, low latency and robust distributed computing features should sometimes consider middleware appliances to complement, and elsewhere to replace, transformation, security, integration suites and other integration middleware," concluded Schulte VP & Analyst, Gartner.

The changes are necessitated because of escalating demands from the business side of the enterprise & the need to adapt their systems and implement new applications that are better suited to ongoing modification

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Prashanth Rai