[mfenniak]

Thanks!

The enterprise integration patterns links are interesting to me; thanks for point those out. I can definitely see how they could use a connection to reality. I can look at a random one and see what it is, but understanding why you'd use it is a mile above my head.

[j-m-o]

Some of the EIPs suffer from the same 'head-in-the-sky' issues as the GoF design patterns, but there's a few that have come in handy (like the idempotent receiver!).

The link to Apache Camel is a bit more informative with actual examples with code snippets.