Enterprise Integration Solutions

Part III

Manipulating

Messages

Messaging is one of the pillars of any enterprise integration solution. All the major EI products

on the market today include some form of messaging engine. This part of the book addresses

the major aspects of messaging with EI solutions.

Chapter 8 describes methods for transforming messages, which is the process of mod-

ifying not only the content of a message, but also its structure. This transformation enables

you to provide messages to systems in the appropriate format.

In Chapter 9, we deal with the process of delivering the messages. We will review the

basics of messaging and then move on to more advanced topics, such as using Microsoft

.NET Remoting to pass messages.

Finally, in Chapter 10, we will demonstrate a variety of ways to construct and evaluate

business rules based on the content of the messages we deliver.