Receive or create the message at the integration boundary.
Integration Styles
Messaging
Applications exchange self-contained messages through channels, allowing senders and receivers to be decoupled in location and time while supporting reliable asynchronous processing.
How can I integrate multiple applications so that they work together and can exchange information?Adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns under CC BY 3.0. The visualization and explanatory content on this page are original GateSift material.
Original GateSift visualization
How Messaging works
The pattern introduces a clear integration responsibility between message production and consumption.
Producer
Messaging
Consumer
Apply Messaging to solve the recurring design problem.
Continue the message flow with clearer responsibilities and lower coupling.
What this pattern helps you decide
Applications exchange self-contained messages through channels, allowing senders and receivers to be decoupled in location and time while supporting reliable asynchronous processing.
What happens when processing fails or the same message is delivered twice?
Where does state, correlation or routing configuration live?
How will operators trace the message and understand the decision path?
Where you may see it
- Azure Service Bus queues and topics
- Event Grid or Event Hubs
- BizTalk MessageBox subscriptions
How the analyzers can surface it
- Queue, topic and event-oriented endpoints
- Publish/subscribe and routing behavior
Pattern detection is contextual. GateSift should present these as architectural signals, not claim a pattern is implemented solely because one policy statement or adapter exists.
Source, licence and attribution
The pattern name and selected problem statement are adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf under CC BY 3.0. GateSift summaries, Azure mappings, analyzer guidance and diagrams are original. No endorsement by the original authors is implied.