July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
410 pages
10h 32m
English
An important consideration for enterprise integration is the topology of the systems being connected. In general, there are two distinct topologies: hub-and-spoke and enterprise service bus.
A hub-and-spoke (hub) topology describes an integration pattern where a single component, the hub, is centralized and it communicates with each application explicitly. This centralizes the communication so that the hub only needs to know about the other applications, as illustrated in the following diagram:

The diagram shows the hub, in blue, as having explicit knowledge of how to communicate with the different applications. This means that, ...
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