Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Boarding Pipe-and-Filter architectures

Based on the concepts that we recently introduced about Pipe-and-Filter in the field of enterprise applications, we use this kind of architecture in several scenarios in order to process a large amount of data (or large files) that trigger several steps (or tasks) that need to be processed. This architecture is highly beneficial when we need to perform a lot of transformations in the data.

To understand how Pipe-and-Filter works, we are going to review a classic example of processing payroll records. In this example, a message is being sent through a sequence of filters, where each filter processes the message in different transactions.

When we apply a Pipe-and-Filter approach, we decompose the whole ...