Architectural Patterns

Message endpoint pattern

Applications in an enterprise communicate with each other by sending messages through a message channel. But the next issue is that there needs to be a mechanism in place that will help applications to connect to the message channel. This is applicable for the sender application to send messages and for the receiver application to receive messages. This is where the message endpoint pattern comes into the picture. The message endpoint acts as a client of the messaging system, which the sender and receiver application can use to send and receive messages. Message endpoint code is accessible to both the application and the MOM's client API. The remaining application knows nothing about message formats, messaging channels, ...