In the beginning of the chapter, we discussed scenarios where there could be a need to integrate certain third-party applications/partner applications to some of the applications that are part of the enterprise. These applications will use diverse data models and may sometimes use totally different data formats for communication. For present-day agile enterprises, it is necessary to use patterns that can interconnect diverse types of applications by converting data from one format to another. This is where the message translator pattern plays a key role. The message translator pattern acts as a special filter between other filters or applications and translates data from one format to another. The diagram depicting the message translator pattern is given as follows:
