[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns]]
Enterprise Integration Patterns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Camel supports most of the
http://www.eaipatterns.com/toc.html[Enterprise Integration Patterns]
from the excellent book by
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/105-9796798-8100401?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Gregor%20Hohpe[Gregor
Hohpe] and
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/105-9796798-8100401?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Bobby%20Woolf[Bobby
Woolf].

If you are new to Camel you might want to try the
link:getting-started.html[Getting Started] in the
link:user-guide.html[User Guide] before attempting to implement these
patterns.

The EIP icons library is available as a Visio stencil file adapted to
render the icons with the Camel color : sand. Download it
link:enterprise-integration-patterns.data/Hohpe_EIP_camel_20150622.zip?version=1&modificationDate=1435069070000&api=v2[here]
for your presentation, functional and technical analysis documents. The
original EIP stencil is also available in
link:enterprise-integration-patterns.data/Hohpe_EIP_camel_OpenOffice.zip?version=1&modificationDate=1245056975000&api=v2[OpenOffice
3.x Draw] (thanks to Marco Garbelini) ,
http://www.eaipatterns.com/download/EIP_Visio_stencil.zip[Microsoft
Visio], or http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/137[Omnigraffle].

[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessagingSystems]]
Messaging Systems
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ChannelIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-channel.html[Message Channel] |How does one application
communicate with another using messaging?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageIcon.gif[image]
|link:message.html[Message] |How can two applications connected by a
message channel exchange a piece of information?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/PipesAndFiltersIcon.gif[image]
|link:pipes-and-filters.html[Pipes and Filters] |How can we perform
complex processing on a message while maintaining independence and
flexibility?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ContentBasedRouterIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-router.html[Message Router] |How can you decouple
individual processing steps so that messages can be passed to different
filters depending on a set of conditions?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageTranslatorIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-translator.html[Message Translator] |How can systems using
different data formats communicate with each other using messaging?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageEndpointIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-endpoint.html[Message Endpoint] |How does an application
connect to a messaging channel to send and receive messages?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessagingChannels]]
Messaging Channels
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/PointToPointIcon.gif[image]
|link:point-to-point-channel.html[Point to Point Channel] |How can the
caller be sure that exactly one receiver will receive the document or
perform the call?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/PublishSubscribeIcon.gif[image]
|link:publish-subscribe-channel.html[Publish Subscribe Channel] |How can
the sender broadcast an event to all interested receivers?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DeadLetterChannelIcon.gif[image]
|link:dead-letter-channel.html[Dead Letter Channel] |What will the
messaging system do with a message it cannot deliver?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/GuaranteedMessagingIcon.gif[image]
|link:guaranteed-delivery.html[Guaranteed Delivery] |How can the sender
make sure that a message will be delivered, even if the messaging system
fails?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageBusIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-bus.html[Message Bus] |What is an architecture that
enables separate applications to work together, but in a de-coupled
fashion such that applications can be easily added or removed without
affecting the others?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageConstruction]]
Message Construction
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/EventMessageIcon.gif[image]
|link:event-message.html[Event Message] |How can messaging be used to
transmit events from one application to another?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/RequestReplyIcon.gif[image]
|link:request-reply.html[Request Reply] |When an application sends a
message, how can it get a response from the receiver?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/CorrelationIdentifierIcon.gif[image]
|link:correlation-identifier.html[Correlation Identifier] |How does a
requestor that has received a reply know which request this is the reply
for?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ReturnAddressIcon.gif[image]
|link:return-address.html[Return Address] |How does a replier know where
to send the reply?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageRouting]]
Message Routing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ContentBasedRouterIcon.gif[image]
|link:content-based-router.html[Content Based Router] |How do we handle
a situation where the implementation of a single logical function (e.g.,
inventory check) is spread across multiple physical systems?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageFilterIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-filter.html[Message Filter] |How can a component avoid
receiving uninteresting messages?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DynamicRouterIcon.gif[image]
|link:dynamic-router.html[Dynamic Router] |How can you avoid the
dependency of the router on all possible destinations while maintaining
its efficiency?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/RecipientListIcon.gif[image]
|link:recipient-list.html[Recipient List] |How do we route a message to
a list of (static or dynamically) specified recipients?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/SplitterIcon.gif[image]
|link:splitter.html[Splitter] |How can we process a message if it
contains multiple elements, each of which may have to be processed in a
different way?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/AggregatorIcon.gif[image]
|link:aggregator2.html[Aggregator] |How do we combine the results of
individual, but related messages so that they can be processed as a
whole?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ResequencerIcon.gif[image]
|link:resequencer.html[Resequencer] |How can we get a stream of related
but out-of-sequence messages back into the correct order?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DistributionAggregateIcon.gif[image]
|link:composed-message-processor.html[Composed Message Processor] |How
can you maintain the overall message flow when processing a message
consisting of multiple elements, each of which may require different
processing?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:scatter-gather.html[Scatter-Gather] |How do you maintain the
overall message flow when a message needs to be sent to multiple
recipients, each of which may send a reply?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/RoutingTableIcon.gif[image]
|link:routing-slip.html[Routing Slip] |How do we route a message
consecutively through a series of processing steps when the sequence of
steps is not known at design-time and may vary for each message?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:throttler.html[Throttler] |How can I throttle messages to ensure
that a specific endpoint does not get overloaded, or we don't exceed an
agreed SLA with some external service?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:sampling.html[Sampling] |How can I sample one message out of many
in a given period to avoid downstream route does not get overloaded?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:delayer.html[Delayer] |How can I delay the sending of a message?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:load-balancer.html[Load Balancer] |How can I balance load across a
number of endpoints?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:multicast.html[Multicast] |How can I route a message to a number
of endpoints at the same time?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:loop.html[Loop] |How can I repeat processing a message in a loop?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageTransformation]]
Message Transformation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DataEnricherIcon.gif[image]
|link:content-enricher.html[Content Enricher] |How do we communicate
with another system if the message originator does not have all the
required data items available?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ContentFilterIcon.gif[image]
|link:content-filter.html[Content Filter] |How do you simplify dealing
with a large message, when you are interested only in a few data items?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/StoreInLibraryIcon.gif[image]
|link:claim-check.html[Claim Check] |How can we reduce the data volume
of message sent across the system without sacrificing information
content?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/NormalizerIcon.gif[image]
|link:normalizer.html[Normalizer] |How do you process messages that are
semantically equivalent, but arrive in a different format?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:sort.html[Sort] |How can I sort the body of a message?

|  |Script |How do I execute a script which may not change the message?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:validate.html[Validate] |How can I validate a message?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessagingEndpoints]]
Messaging Endpoints
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:messaging-mapper.html[Messaging Mapper] |How do you move data
between domain objects and the messaging infrastructure while keeping
the two independent of each other?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/EventDrivenConsumerIcon.gif[image]
|link:event-driven-consumer.html[Event Driven Consumer] |How can an
application automatically consume messages as they become available?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/PollingConsumerIcon.gif[image]
|link:polling-consumer.html[Polling Consumer] |How can an application
consume a message when the application is ready?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/CompetingConsumersIcon.gif[image]
|link:competing-consumers.html[Competing Consumers] |How can a messaging
client process multiple messages concurrently?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageDispatcherIcon.gif[image]
|link:message-dispatcher.html[Message Dispatcher] |How can multiple
consumers on a single channel coordinate their message processing?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessageSelectorIcon.gif[image]
|link:selective-consumer.html[Selective Consumer] |How can a message
consumer select which messages it wishes to receive?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DurableSubscriptionIcon.gif[image]
|link:durable-subscriber.html[Durable Subscriber] |How can a subscriber
avoid missing messages while it's not listening for them?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:idempotent-consumer.html[Idempotent Consumer] |How can a message
receiver deal with duplicate messages?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/TransactionalClientIcon.gif[image]
|link:transactional-client.html[Transactional Client] |How can a client
control its transactions with the messaging system?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessagingGatewayIcon.gif[image]
|link:messaging-gateway.html[Messaging Gateway] |How do you encapsulate
access to the messaging system from the rest of the application?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/MessagingAdapterIcon.gif[image]
|link:service-activator.html[Service Activator] |How can an application
design a service to be invoked both via various messaging technologies
and via non-messaging techniques?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-SystemManagement]]
System Management
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/ControlBusIcon.gif[image]
|link:controlbus.html[ControlBus] |How can we effectively administer a
messaging system that is distributed across multiple platforms and a
wide geographic area?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/DetourIcon.gif[image]
|link:detour.html[Detour] |How can you route a message through
intermediate steps to perform validation, testing or debugging
functions?

|image:http://www.eaipatterns.com/img/WireTapIcon.gif[image]
|link:wire-tap.html[Wire Tap] |How do you inspect messages that travel
on a point-to-point channel?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:message-history.html[Message History] |How can we effectively
analyze and debug the flow of messages in a loosely coupled system?

|image:http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/49204/clear.png[image]
|link:logeip.html[Log] |How can I log processing a message?
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