Acknowledgments

Like most books, Enterprise Integration Patterns has been a long time in the making. The idea of writing about message-based integration patterns dates back to the summer of 2001 when Martin Fowler was working on Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (P of EAA). At that time, it struck Kyle Brown that while P of EAA talked a lot about how to create applications, it touches only briefly on how to integrate them. This idea was the starting point for a series of meetings between Martin and Kyle that also included Rachel Reinitz, John Crupi, and Mark Weitzel. Bobby joined these discussions in the fall of 2001, followed by Gregor in early 2002. The following summer the group submitted two papers for review at the Pattern ...

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