Editing Enterprise application integration (section)

==== Lifetime patterns ====
An integration operation could be short-lived (e.g., keeping data in sync across two applications could be completed within a second) or long-lived (e.g., one of the steps could involve the EAI system interacting with a human [[work flow]] application for approval of a loan that takes hours or days to complete).{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole section|date=May 2016}}