Preface

Developers who’ve had to do application integration work know what a daunting endeavor it can be. While some applications provide facilities for integration, say with a rich API meant to be externally consumed, many were never designed to be accessed by other applications. Challenges also abound for applications that are designed for interoperability from the ground up. Developers will often spend a considerable amount of time dealing with the plumbing of a particular integration protocol, such as SOAP or JMS, to allow their applications to play nicely with the outside world.

Enterprise Integration Patterns, by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, quantified these challenges, attached a language to them, and offered a catalog of solutions. ...

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