In this e-guide, Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hohpe talks about the evolution of design pattern abstractions, and their implications for the future of application development. A new set of architectural techniques, he explains could help designers to better understand the various tradeoffs in elaborate patterns that are seen more often these days with conversations, workflows and events.

From the paired article in this e-guide, get a better understanding of new modeling software and techniques— based on Hohpe's work— that let development team members visually connect components in Apache Camel-based integrations.