ThoughtWorks Solving Developers Integration Problems With Best-Selling Book; Gregor Hohpe's Enterprise Integration Patterns book now in fourth print run.

CHICAGO -- ThoughtWorks' Integration Practice Leader Gregor Hohpe's latest book, Enterprise Integration Patterns, is changing the way architects and developers describe integration problems and solutions. The book fills a unique gap in the literature on enterprise integration by focusing on implementation trade-offs while still remaining technology neutral.

Co-authored by Bobby Wolf, Enterprise Integration Patterns is now in its fourth print run in less than a year and follow-up research is underway. "We have barely scratched the surface of the integration space," Hohpe says. "Integration is an equally complex and interesting space and I am actively collecting more patterns."

Enterprise Integration Patterns contains a pattern language that helps readers describe commonly occurring integration problems and corresponding solutions. The book illustrates the patterns with examples based on JMS, MSMQ, Web Services, TIBCO, BizTalk and other integration suites.

A key feature of the book is a visual notation that enables integration architects to sketch up informal but expressive diagrams in white board discussions and design documents. The visual pattern language has already been adopted and extended by other authors and vendors.

For example, the book Enterprise Service Bus, authored by Sonic Software Chief Technology Evangelist David Chappell, embraced and extended the pattern language to describe how to build SOAs using the architectural concepts of an Enterprise Service Bus.

"I was inspired by EIP's visual pattern language, and chose to extend it in my ESB book in order to help the industry rally around a common visual notation for doing SOA based integration patterns using ESBs. Our field engineers and our customers are already putting this visual pattern language to good use by using it to visually describe how they are architecting for the future using SOA based integration," Chappell explains.

John Schmidt, president of the integration consortium, adds: "The integration world has been plagued by a veritable lack of consistency in even the language used to talk about integration. This book finally provides the opportunity to change all that."

The pattern language in Enterprise Integration Patterns is going to form the basis for the vocabulary to be used in the Global Integration Framework (GIF) effort sponsored by the Integration Consortium. To support wide adoption of the pattern language, all patterns are also available - in condensed form - on www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com.

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