Enterprise Integration Patterns from Gregor Hohpe

Enterprise Integration Patterns is an excellent book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf and describes 65 patterns for the use of enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware in the form of a pattern language.

Published by Addison-Wesley, 2004.

Gregor Hohpe is currently a technical director in Google Cloud's Office of the CTO.

More at Wikipedia.

There is an excellent website for the book.

A 2016 interview with the authors on IEEE Software. A Decade of Enterprise Integration Patterns: A Conversation with the Authors. PDF is available.

Presentation by Gregor at YOW Singapore Conference 2017


Integration styles and types

The book distinguishes four top-level alternatives for integration:

  • File Transfer
  • Shared Database
  • Remote Procedure Invocation
  • Messaging


The following integration types are introduced:

  • Information Portal
  • Data Replication
  • Shared Business Function
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Distributed Business Process
  • Business-to-Business Integration
  • Tightly Coupled Interaction vs. Loosely Coupled Interaction


The graphic icons used in the patterns are also freely available from different sources.
  • Visio Stencils
Some additional graphics notes here.

Blogs

Software

Enterprise Integration Patterns are implemented in many open source integration solutions.

Commercial MOM Message Queuing Services in the cloud include

Mikes Notes

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