Connect to the messaging channel through an adapter, client or connector.
Messaging Endpoints
Messaging Gateway
Expose a domain-friendly interface that hides channel names, message construction and transport APIs from the rest of the application.
How do you encapsulate access to the messaging system from the rest of the application?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 Gateway works
A dedicated endpoint hides transport details from the application that sends or receives messages.
Channel
Messaging Gateway
Application
Apply Messaging Gateway to encapsulate delivery, consumption and transport concerns.
Expose a simpler application-facing contract and operational boundary.
What this pattern helps you decide
Expose a domain-friendly interface that hides channel names, message construction and transport APIs from the rest of the application.
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
- Typed Service Bus gateway service
- Application integration client
- Logic Apps custom connector
How the analyzers can surface it
- Adapter abstraction boundaries
- Endpoint purpose and ownership
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.