Mastering Apache Camel

Chapter 5. Enterprise Integration Patterns

In previous chapters, we have seen how a processor or a bean can be used to implement behavioral changes on the messages.

However, some of those functions provide ways to implement solutions to common problems and, instead of reimplementing the same function in different routes, we can reuse an existing one. Some of these generic message operations are described in the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs) from Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf (http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/).

This chapter will introduce the most used EIPs provided by Camel:

• The messaging systems EIPs
• The messaging channels EIPs
• The message construction EIPs
• The message routing EIPs
• The message transformation EIPs
• The messaging endpoints ...