Enterprise Integration Patterns
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An enterprise has two separate applications that need to communicate, preferably by using Messaging.

How does one application communicate with another using messaging?

Connect the applications using a Message Channel, where one application writes information to the channel and the other one reads that information from the channel.

When an application has information to communicate, it doesn't just fling the information into the messaging system, it adds the information to a particular Message Channel. An application receiving information doesn't just pick it up at random from the messaging system; it retrieves the information from a particular Message Channel.

The application adding info doesn't necessarily know what particular application will end up retrieving the info, but it can be assured that whatever application retrieves the info, that application will be interested in the info. This is because the messaging system has different Message Channels for different types of information the applications want to communicate. When an application sends information, it doesn't randomly add the info to any channel available; it adds the info to a channel whose specific purpose is to communicate that sort of information. Likewise, an application that wants to receive particular information doesn't pull info off some random channel; it selects what channel to get information from based on what type of information it wants.

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Related patterns: Channel Adapter, Datatype Channel, Invalid Message Channel, Message Bus, Message Endpoint, Selective Consumer, Messaging, Introduction to Messaging Channels, Point-to-Point Channel, Publish-Subscribe Channel


Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Solving Integration Problems using Patterns
Integration Styles
File Transfer
Shared Database
Remote Procedure Invocation
Messaging
Messaging Systems
Message Channel
Message
Pipes and Filters
Message Router
Message Translator
Message Endpoint
Messaging Channels
Point-to-Point Channel
Publish-Subscribe Channel
Datatype Channel
Invalid Message Channel
Dead Letter Channel
Guaranteed Delivery
Channel Adapter
Messaging Bridge
Message Bus
Message Construction
Command Message
Document Message
Event Message
Request-Reply
Return Address
Correlation Identifier
Message Sequence
Message Expiration
Format Indicator
Interlude: Simple Messaging
JMS Request/Reply Example
.NET Request/Reply Example
JMS Publish/Subscribe Example
Message Routing
Content-Based Router
Message Filter
Dynamic Router
Recipient List
Splitter
Aggregator
Resequencer
Composed Msg. Processor
Scatter-Gather
Routing Slip
Process Manager
Message Broker
Message Transformation
Envelope Wrapper
Content Enricher
Content Filter
Claim Check
Normalizer
Canonical Data Model
Interlude: Composed Messaging
Synchronous (Web Services)
Asynchronous (MSMQ)
Asynchronous (TIBCO)
Messaging Endpoints
Messaging Gateway
Messaging Mapper
Transactional Client
Polling Consumer
Event-Driven Consumer
Competing Consumers
Message Dispatcher
Selective Consumer
Durable Subscriber
Idempotent Receiver
Service Activator
System Management
Control Bus
Detour
Wire Tap
Message History
Message Store
Smart Proxy
Test Message
Channel Purger
Interlude: Systems Management Example
Instrumenting Loan Broker
Integration Patterns in Practice
Case Study: Bond Trading System
Concluding Remarks
Emerging Standards
Appendices
Bibliography
Revision History
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