[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns]]
= Enterprise Integration Patterns

Camel supports most of the
http://www.eaipatterns.com/toc.html[Enterprise Integration Patterns]
from the excellent book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf.

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

[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessagingSystems]]
== Messaging Systems

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a|image::eip/ChannelIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-channel.adoc[Message Channel] |How does one application
communicate with another using messaging?

a|image::eip/MessageIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message.adoc[Message] |How can two applications connected by a
message channel exchange a piece of information?

a|image::eip/PipesAndFiltersIcon.gif[image]
|xref:pipeline-eip.adoc[Pipes and Filters] |How can we perform
complex processing on a message while maintaining independence and
flexibility?

a|image::eip/ContentBasedRouterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-router.adoc[Message Router] |How can you decouple
individual processing steps so that messages can be passed to different
filters depending on a set of conditions?

a|image::eip/MessageTranslatorIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-translator.adoc[Message Translator] |How can systems using
different data formats communicate with each other using messaging?

a|image::eip/MessageEndpointIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-endpoint.adoc[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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a|image::eip/PointToPointIcon.gif[image]
|xref:point-to-point-channel.adoc[Point to Point Channel] |How can the
caller be sure that exactly one receiver will receive the document or
perform the call?

a|image::eip/PublishSubscribeIcon.gif[image]
|xref:publish-subscribe-channel.adoc[Publish Subscribe Channel] |How can
the sender broadcast an event to all interested receivers?

a|image::eip/DeadLetterChannelIcon.gif[image]
|xref:dead-letter-channel.adoc[Dead Letter Channel] |What will the
messaging system do with a message it cannot deliver?

a|image::eip/GuaranteedMessagingIcon.gif[image]
|xref:guaranteed-delivery.adoc[Guaranteed Delivery] |How can the sender
make sure that a message will be delivered, even if the messaging system
fails?

a|image::eip/ChannelAdapterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:channel-adapter.adoc[Channel Adapter] |How can you connect an
application to the messaging system so that it can send and receive messages?

a|image::eip/MessagingBridgeIcon.gif[image]
|xref:messaging-bridge.adoc[Messaging Bridge] |How can multiple messaging systems
be connected so that messages available on one are also available on the others??

a|image::eip/MessageBusIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-bus.adoc[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?

a|image::eip/MessagingBridgeIcon.gif[image]
|xref:change-data-capture.adoc[Change Data Capture] | Data synchronization by capturing
changes made to a database, and apply those changes to another system.
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageConstruction]]
== Message Construction

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a|image::eip/EventMessageIcon.gif[image]
|xref:event-message.adoc[Event Message] |How can messaging be used to
transmit events from one application to another?

a|image::eip/RequestReplyIcon.gif[image]
|xref:request-reply.adoc[Request Reply] |When an application sends a
message, how can it get a response from the receiver?

a|image::eip/ReturnAddressIcon.gif[image]
|xref:return-address.adoc[Return Address] |How does a replier know where
to send the reply?

a|image::eip/CorrelationIdentifierIcon.gif[image]
|xref:correlation-identifier.adoc[Correlation Identifier] |How does a
requestor that has received a reply know which request this is the reply
for?

a|image::eip/MessageExpirationIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-expiration.adoc[Message Expiration] |How can a sender indicate
when a message should be considered stale and thus shouldn’t be processed?

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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageRouting]]
== Message Routing

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a|image::eip/ContentBasedRouterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:content-based-router-eip.adoc[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?

a|image::eip/MessageFilterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:filter-eip.adoc[Message Filter] |How can a component avoid
receiving uninteresting messages?

a|image::eip/DynamicRouterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:dynamicRouter-eip.adoc[Dynamic Router] |How can you avoid the
dependency of the router on all possible destinations while maintaining
its efficiency?

a|image::eip/RecipientListIcon.gif[image]
|xref:recipientList-eip.adoc[Recipient List] |How do we route a message to
a list of (static or dynamically) specified recipients?

a|image::eip/SplitterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:split-eip.adoc[Splitter] |How can we process a message if it
contains multiple elements, each of which may have to be processed in a
different way?

a|image::eip/AggregatorIcon.gif[image]
|xref:aggregate-eip.adoc[Aggregator] |How do we combine the results of
individual, but related messages so that they can be processed as a
whole?

a|image::eip/ResequencerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:resequence-eip.adoc[Resequencer] |How can we get a stream of related
but out-of-sequence messages back into the correct order?

a|image::eip/DistributionAggregateIcon.gif[image]
|xref:composed-message-processor.adoc[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?

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|xref:scatter-gather.adoc[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?

a|image::eip/RoutingTableIcon.gif[image]
|xref:routingSlip-eip.adoc[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?

a|image::eip/ProcessManagerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:process-manager.adoc[Process Manager] |How do we route a message
through multiple processing steps when the required steps may not be known
at design-time and may not be sequential?

a|image::eip/MessageBrokerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-broker.adoc[Message Broker] |How can you decouple the
destination of a message from the sender and maintain central control
over the flow of messages?

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|xref:throttle-eip.adoc[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?

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|xref:sample-eip.adoc[Sampling] |How can I sample one message out of many
in a given period to avoid downstream route does not get overloaded?

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|xref:delay-eip.adoc[Delayer] |How can I delay the sending of a message?

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|xref:loadBalance-eip.adoc[Load Balancer] |How can I balance load across a
number of endpoints?

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|xref:circuitBreaker-eip.adoc[Circuit Breaker] |How can I stop to call an external service if the service is broken?

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|xref:serviceCall-eip.adoc[Service Call] |How can I call a remote service in a distributed system
where the service is looked up from a service registry of some sorts?

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|xref:saga-eip.adoc[Saga] |How can I define a series of related actions in a Camel route
that should be either completed successfully (all of them) or not-executed/compensated?

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|xref:multicast-eip.adoc[Multicast] |How can I route a message to a number
of endpoints at the same time?

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|xref:loop-eip.adoc[Loop] |How can I repeat processing a message in a loop?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessageTransformation]]
== Message Transformation

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a|image::eip/DataEnricherIcon.gif[image]
|xref:content-enricher.adoc[Content Enricher] |How do we communicate
with another system if the message originator does not have all the
required data items available?

a|image::eip/ContentFilterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:content-filter-eip.adoc[Content Filter] |How do you simplify dealing
with a large message, when you are interested only in a few data items?

a|image::eip/StoreInLibraryIcon.gif[image]
|xref:claimCheck-eip.adoc[Claim Check] |How can we reduce the data volume
of message sent across the system without sacrificing information
content?

a|image::eip/NormalizerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:normalizer.adoc[Normalizer] |How do you process messages that are
semantically equivalent, but arrive in a different format?

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|xref:sort-eip.adoc[Sort] |How can I sort the body of a message?

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|xref:script-eip.adoc[Script] |How do I execute a script which may not change the message?

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|xref:validate-eip.adoc[Validate] |How can I validate a message?
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[[EnterpriseIntegrationPatterns-MessagingEndpoints]]
== Messaging Endpoints

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|xref:messaging-mapper.adoc[Messaging Mapper] |How do you move data
between domain objects and the messaging infrastructure while keeping
the two independent of each other?

a|image::eip/EventDrivenConsumerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:eventDrivenConsumer-eip.adoc[Event Driven Consumer] |How can an
application automatically consume messages as they become available?

a|image::eip/PollingConsumerIcon.gif[image]
|xref:polling-consumer.adoc[Polling Consumer] |How can an application
consume a message when the application is ready?

a|image::eip/CompetingConsumersIcon.gif[image]
|xref:competing-consumers.adoc[Competing Consumers] |How can a messaging
client process multiple messages concurrently?

a|image::eip/MessageDispatcherIcon.gif[image]
|xref:message-dispatcher.adoc[Message Dispatcher] |How can multiple
consumers on a single channel coordinate their message processing?

a|image::eip/MessageSelectorIcon.gif[image]
|xref:selective-consumer.adoc[Selective Consumer] |How can a message
consumer select which messages it wishes to receive?

a|image::eip/DurableSubscriptionIcon.gif[image]
|xref:durable-subscriber.adoc[Durable Subscriber] |How can a subscriber
avoid missing messages while it's not listening for them?

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|xref:idempotentConsumer-eip.adoc[Idempotent Consumer] |How can a message
receiver deal with duplicate messages?

a|image::eip/TransactionalClientIcon.gif[image]
|xref:transactional-client.adoc[Transactional Client] |How can a client
control its transactions with the messaging system?

a|image::eip/MessagingGatewayIcon.gif[image]
|xref:messaging-gateway.adoc[Messaging Gateway] |How do you encapsulate
access to the messaging system from the rest of the application?

a|image::eip/MessagingAdapterIcon.gif[image]
|xref:service-activator.adoc[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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a|image::eip/ControlBusIcon.gif[image]
|xref:components::controlbus-component.adoc[ControlBus] |How can we effectively administer a
messaging system that is distributed across multiple platforms and a
wide geographic area?

a|image::eip/DetourIcon.gif[image]
|xref:intercept.adoc[Detour] |How can you route a message through
intermediate steps to perform validation, testing or debugging
functions?

a|image::eip/WireTapIcon.gif[image]
|xref:wireTap-eip.adoc[Wire Tap] |How do you inspect messages that travel
on a point-to-point channel?

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|xref:message-history.adoc[Message History] |How can we effectively
analyze and debug the flow of messages in a loosely coupled system?

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|xref:log-eip.adoc[Log] |How can I log processing a message?

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|xref:step-eip.adoc[Step] | Steps groups together a set of EIPs into a composite logical unit for metrics and monitoring. |

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=== EIP Icons

The EIP icons library is available as a Visio stencil file adapted to
render the icons with the Camel color. Download it
link:{attachmentsdir}/Hohpe_EIP_camel_20150622.zip[here]
for your presentation, functional and technical analysis documents.

The original EIP stencil is also available in
link:{attachmentsdir}/Hohpe_EIP_camel_OpenOffice.zip[OpenOffice 3.x Draw],
http://www.eaipatterns.com/download/EIP_Visio_stencil.zip[Microsoft Visio],
or http://www.graffletopia.com/stencils/137[Omnigraffle].
