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Part 4 2 chapters

Message Construction

What goes inside a message — command, document, and event messages, request-reply, correlation, sequencing, and expiration.

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Message Types

Command, document, and event messages — the three semantic types that determine what a message means and how the receiver should handle it.

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Chapter 8

Message Metadata

Request-reply, correlation identifiers, return addresses, message sequences, expiration, and format indicators — the metadata that makes asynchronous conversations possible.

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Enterprise Integration Patterns with Apache Camel

A comprehensive guide to the 65 Enterprise Integration Patterns — implemented with Apache Camel on three runtimes (Quarkus, Spring Boot, and YAML DSL), backed by Kafka, Pulsar, and Redis, with runnable examples on Podman.

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