1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: identifying an exception corresponding to an integration operation of an integration process for messaging processing between a sending and a receiving computing system; determining a type of the identified exception; determining that the exception type indicates that the integration operation contains one or more activities belonging to a compensation sphere associated with a compensation sphere exception handling pattern requiring one or more correcting compensation activities logically linked through compensation characteristics, wherein multiple compensation spheres can be configured to overlap and to be stacked hierarchically; and configuring an exception flow of the integration process based on the one or more correcting compensation activities.