Foreword

by Martin Fowler

While I was working on my book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, I was lucky to get some in-depth review from Kyle Brown and Rachel Reinitz at some informal workshops at Kyle’s office in Raleigh-Durham. During these sessions, we realized that a big gap in my work was asynchronous messaging systems.

There are many gaps in my book, and I never intended it to be a complete collection of patterns for enterprise development. But the gap on asynchronous messaging is particularly important because we believe that asynchronous messaging will play an increasingly important role in enterprise software development, particularly in integration. Integration is important because applications cannot live isolated from ...

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