Table of Contents

• 1. Solving Integration Problems Using Patterns
• 2. Integration Styles
• 3. Messaging Systems
• 4. Messaging Channels
• 5. Message Construction
• 6. Interlude: Simple Messaging
• 7. Message Routing
• 8. Message Transformation
• 9. Interlude: Composed Messaging
• 10. Messaging Endpoints
• 11. System Management
• 12. Interlude: System Management Example
• 13. Integration Patterns in Practice
• 14. Concluding Remarks

About the Author

Gregor Hohpe leads the enterprise integration practice at ThoughtWorks, Inc., a specialized provider of application development and integration services. Drawing from his extensive experience designing and implementing integration solutions for enterprise clients, Gregor has published a number of papers and articles presenting a no-hype view on enterprise integration, Web services, and Service-Oriented Architectures. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences around the world.

Bobby Woolf is coauthor of The Design Patterns Smalltalk Companion (Addison-Wesley, 1998), and author of articles in IBM DeveloperWorks, Java Developer's Journal, and elsewhere. He has been a tutorial presenter at OOPSLA, JavaEdge, and Smalltalk Solutions, among other conferences.