Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

Hohpe, an expert in enterprise integration, and Woolf, an author of technical books and articles, provide a catalog of 65 patterns and real-world solutions for asynchronous messaging. Providing a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large-scale integration across many technologies, the book presents practical advice on designing code and managing, monitoring, and maintaining a messaging system, useful for application and integration architects and developers and enterprise architects. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.