Title: Invaluable resource for corporate developers
Review: This is the third pattern book in my collection (the other two are Analysis Patterns by Martin Fowler and the definitive Design Patterns by the Gang of Four) and IMHO this is the best example yet of where patterns can really improve the development process. This is the first book I've seen to address the area of enterprise development where the real heavy lifting takes place. Applications don't miraculously integrate with one another; it takes talented, knowledgeable IT personnel to wire everything together. If you're one of those people, Enterprise Integration Patterns is an important addition to your toolkit.Chapter 2 takes the reader through the integration efforts of a fictional enterprise to demonstrate some of the patterns in action. The descriptions of the problems and their possible solutions... just make sense. You can really see the benefit that these patterns provide to simplifying, organizing and clarifying the situation.
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