☛ Message Routing

-> Message Router : determines the recipient of the message based on a set of conditions

-> Content-Based Router : determines the recipient of a message based on message content

-> Routing-Slip : a message must be routed through a series of components in a pre-defined order, which may not be known at the design time.

-> Recipient List: a message is routed to one or more recipients (static / dynamic)

-> Splitter : Breaking one message to multiple chunks

☛ Message Transformation

-> Translator : Solves the problem of translating incompatible data formats between two systems

-> Normalizer : Solves the problem when messages received from different sources are semantically equivalent but format is different

-> Content Enricher : Solves the problem by furnishing additional data to the received message required by target system

☛ Service Mediation

-> VETO / VETRO : Solves the problem using esb pipelines for Validate, Enrich, Transform, Route, Operate

-> Request-Response: Solves the problem of two-way communication

☛ Service Management

-> Repair and Resubmit: So