Open Source for e-Government Application Integration: a PHP-based solution

This paper introduces UniGeINT - University of Genoa Integration Tool -, a framework designed to provide integration between several existing tools, databases and data repositories we used in internal administrative processes, by exploiting OSS benefits in terms of costs reduction and bug reporting. Moreover, it adopts state-of-art solutions in Enterprise Application Integration, by using specific design patterns able to match existing IT marrow. So we required in final product common features unmissable for a large scale corporative environment: reliability and fault tolerance, besides to a complete integration with anything previously developed.