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Gregor Hohpe leads the enterprise integration practice at ThoughtWorks, Inc., a specialized provider of application development and integration services. Drawing from his extensive experience designing and implementing integration solutions for enterprise clients, Gregor has published a number of papers and articles presenting a no-hype view on enterprise integration, Web services, and Service-Oriented Architectures. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences around the world.

Bobby Woolf is coauthor of The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion (Addison-Wesley, 1998), and author of articles in IBM DeveloperWorks, Java Developer's Journal, and elsewhere. He has been a tutorial presenter at OOPSLA, JavaEdge, and Smalltalk Solutions, among other conferences.



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  • Would you like to use a consistent visual notation for drawing integration solutions? Look inside the front cover.
  • Do you want to harness the power of asynchronous systems without getting caught in the pitfalls? See "Thinking Asynchronously" in the Introduction.
  • Do you want to know which style of application integration is best for your purposes? See Chapter 2, Integration Styles.
  • Do you want to learn techniques for processing messages concurrently? See Chapter 10, Competing Consumers and Message Dispatcher.
  • Do you want to learn how you can track asynchronous messages as they flow across distributed systems? See Chapter 11, Message History and Message Store.
  • Do you want to understand how a system designed using integration patterns can be implemented using Java Web services, .NET message queuing, and a TIBCO-based publish-subscribe architecture? See Chapter 9, Interlude: Composed Messaging.
  • Utilizing years of practical experience, seasoned experts Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf show how asynchronous messaging has proven to be the best strategy for enterprise integration success. However, building and deploying messaging solutions presents a number of problems for developers. Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an invaluable catalog of sixty-five patterns, with real-world solutions that demonstrate the formidable of messaging and help you to design effective messaging solutions for your enterprise.

    The authors also include examples covering a variety of different integration technologies, such as JMS, MSMQ, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, Microsoft BizTalk, SOAP, and XSL. A case study describing a bond trading system illustrates the patterns in practice, and the book offers a look at emerging standards, as well as insights into what the future of enterprise integration might hold.

    This book provides a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration solutions across many technologies. It also explores in detail the advantages and limitations of asynchronous messaging architectures. The authors present practical advice on designing code that connects an application to a messaging system, and provide extensive information to help you determine when to send a message, how to route it to the proper destination, and how to monitor the health of a messaging system. If you want to know how to manage, monitor, and maintain a messaging system once it is in use, get this book.



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    104 of 110 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Patterns - revisited, October 28, 2003
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    ART SEDIGHI (Old Bethpage, NY United States) - See all my reviews
    This review is from: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Hardcover)
    To do justice in reviewing this book, I should depict every single pattern and give you multiple examples on how it would apply to your job as a Project Manager, Software Architect, Technical Lead or a Developer. That would be a 500-page book all by itself. In short, this is one great book. The first book to actually take a complex and ever growing topic such as MOM, Message Oriented Middleware, and give you its benefits and the best practices/patterns all in one book.

    The author starts by giving the reader the top reasons why messaging should be chosen for the next project:
    1) Remote communication
    2) Platform/Language Integration
    3) Asynchronous communication
    4) Variable timing
    5) Throttling
    6) Reliable Communication
    7) Disconnected operation
    8) Mediation
    9) Thread Management
    The author goes into detail on each of these reasons. These reasons would convince any software architect, but the author goes even further than that and... Read more

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    41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best technical book of 2004, July 4, 2004
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    David Bridgeland (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Hardcover)
    I had been waiting for this book for several years. There are many good books on software architecture using synchronous communication, but nothing on asynchronous communication --- the typical scheme when connecting existing applications. This is surprising since the underlying products (MQ, MSMQ, WebMethods, Vitria, etc.) have been around for a while, some for more than 10 years, and the techniques have become increasingly well understood by the practitioners. There are even some books on the individual products --- several on MQ for example --- but nothing more general about how to use messaging, message routing, and message transformation to build a larger system.

    This is the book I had been waiting for. Furthermore the authors have avoided the usual three pitfalls of technical books: it is well organized, it well written, and it is deep treatment, not at all superficial.

    The book is organized into 65 patterns (in the manner of the classic _Design Patterns_). Each pattern... Read more

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    22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Message Pattern Language, March 29, 2004
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    Ray Ye (Dallas, Tx) - See all my reviews
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    This review is from: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Hardcover)
    This a book about enterprise integration solutions, authors claim that they are technology neutral, it is true. In the examples and implementations, they chose 3 most popular messaging frameworks to illustrate the patterns. However, they are pretty biased toward messaging as the "better" solution to enterprise integration strategy. It may have a lot of edges over the other approaches, sometimes it is just easy to use a simple wrapper/facade to do the integration. But I guess authors really intend to push their messaging solutions as the subtitle indicates.

    Having said that, this is an excellent book of message pattern language, which I believe is the first one introducing the interesting topic. The books touches from the architectural patterns, e.g., messaging bus, pipe and filters, to common design patterns, e.g., publish/subscribe, request/reply, to some patterns that most MOMs provide as integrated solutions, e.g., durable subscriber, message filter, message expiration... Read more

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    Online Sample Chapters

    Enterprise Integration Patterns: Message Construction

    Enterprise Integration Patterns: Messaging Channels

    Enterprise Integration Styles

    Table of Contents



    Foreword by John Crupi.


    Foreword by Martin Fowler.


    Preface.


    Acknowledgments.


    Introduction.


    1. Solving Integration Problems Using Patterns.

    The Need for Integration.

    Integration Challenges.

    How Integration Patterns Can Help.

    The Wide World of Integration.

    Loose Coupling.

    One-Minute EAI.

    A Loosely Coupled Integration Solution.

    Widgets & Gadgets 'R Us: An Example.

    Summary.



    2. Integration Styles.

    Introduction.

    File Transfer (by Martin Fowler).

    Shared Database (by Martin Fowler).

    Remote Procedure Invocation (by Martin Fowler).

    Messaging.



    3. Messaging Systems.

    Introduction.

    Message Channel.

    Message.

    Pipes and Filters.

    Message Router.

    Message Translator.

    Message Endpoint.



    4. Messaging Channels.

    Introduction.

    Point-to-Point Channel.

    Publish-Subscribe Channel.

    Datatype Channel.

    Invalid Message Channel.

    Dead Letter Channel.

    Guaranteed Delivery.

    Channel Adapter.

    Messaging Bridge.

    Message Bus.



    5. Message Construction.

    Introduction.

    Command Message.

    Document Message.

    Event Message.

    Request-Reply.

    Return Address.

    Correlation Identifier.

    Message Sequence.

    Message Expiration.

    Format Indicator.



    6. Interlude: Simple Messaging.

    Introduction.

    JMS Request-Reply Example.

    .NET Request-Reply Example.

    JMS Publish-Subscribe Example.



    7. Message Routing.

    Introduction.

    Content-Based Router.

    Message Filter.

    Dynamic Router.

    Recipient List.

    Splitter.

    Aggregator.

    Resequencer.

    Composed Message Processor.

    Scatter-Gather.

    Routing Slip.

    Process Manager.

    Message Broker.



    8. Message Transformation.

    Introduction.

    Envelope Wrapper.

    Content Enricher.

    Content Filter.

    Claim Check.

    Normalizer.

    Canonical Data Model.



    9. Interlude: Composed Messaging.

    Loan Broker Example.

    Synchronous Implementation Using Web Services (by Conrad F. D'Cruz).

    Asynchronous Implementation with MSMQ.

    Asynchronous Implementation with TIBCO ActiveEnterprise (by Michael J. Rettig).



    10. Messaging Endpoints.

    Introduction.

    Messaging Gateway.

    Messaging Mapper.

    Transactional Client.

    Polling Consumer.

    Event-Driven Consumer.

    Competing Consumers.

    Message Dispatcher.

    Selective Consumer.

    Durable Subscriber.

    Idempotent Receiver.

    Service Activator.



    11. System Management.

    Introduction.

    Control Bus.

    Detour.

    Wire Tap.

    Message History.

    Message Store.

    Smart Proxy.

    Test Message.

    Channel Purger.



    12. Interlude: System Management Example.

    Loan Broker System Management.



    13. Integration Patterns in Practice.

    Case Study: Bond Pricing System (by Jonathan Simon).



    14. Concluding Remarks.

    Emerging Standards and Futures in Enterprise Integration (by Sean Neville).



    Bibliography.


    Index. 0321200683T10062003

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