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Architectural Patterns

By : Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Book Image

Architectural Patterns

By: Anupama Murali, Harihara Subramanian J, Pethuru Raj Chelliah

Overview of this book

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is typically an aggregate of the business, application, data, and infrastructure architectures of any forward-looking enterprise. Due to constant changes and rising complexities in the business and technology landscapes, producing sophisticated architectures is on the rise. Architectural patterns are gaining a lot of attention these days. The book is divided in three modules. You'll learn about the patterns associated with object-oriented, component-based, client-server, and cloud architectures. The second module covers Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) patterns and how they are architected using various tools and patterns. You will come across patterns for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), big data analytics architecture, and Microservices Architecture (MSA). The final module talks about advanced topics such as Docker containers, high performance, and reliable application architectures. The key takeaways include understanding what architectures are, why they're used, and how and where architecture, design, and integration patterns are being leveraged to build better and bigger systems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Channel adapter

If applications communicate with the help of messaging, it is necessary to ensure that the applications can connect to the messaging system to send and receive messages. This is where the channel adapter is helpful. The diagram depicting the channel adapter pattern is shown as follows:

A channel adapter should be able to access the application's API or data and publish messages on a channel based on this data. It should also be able to invoke the functionality inside the application and receive messages. The adapter ideally acts as a client to the messaging system. The channel adapter invokes the functions of the application through an interface that is supplied by the application. This helps an application to remain integrated with a messaging system if it has a proper channel adapter. In the next section, we will focus on mobile integration patterns, that...