Digging into enterprise integration patterns
The most complete and widely used collection of integration patterns is enterprise integration patterns. Enterprise integration patterns are a list of recipes for implementing well-known solutions to well-known problems in integration. Indeed, very often, the issues that occur when implementing an integration solution fall into some recognizable categories. According to common groupings, such categories include the following:
- Message routing, which includes all the issues and solutions about message dispatching, with topics such as filtering, routing, and aggregating messages
- Message transformation, which is more focused on the message content, including all kinds of message manipulation techniques, such as enriching, filtering, and uniforming the message content
- System management, which is a category including known techniques for managing and operating the integration system as a whole, including wiretaps, message archiving...
