Hohpe, an expert in enterprise integration, and Woolf, an author of technical books and articles, provide a catalog of 65 patterns and real-world solutions for asynchronous messaging. Providing a consistent vocabulary and visual notation framework to describe large- scale integration across many technologies, the book presents practical advice on designing code and managing, monitoring, and maintaining a messaging system, useful for application and integration architects and developers and enterprise architects. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)