A Decade of Enterprise Integration Patterns: A Conversation with the Authors

A General Retrospective Olaf Zimmermann: How did your book come to be? How did you get together, and how did you nd your contributors and reviewers? Bobby Woolf: Martin Fowler was the matchmaker. When he wrote Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture,2 Kyle Brown pointed out that his pattern language was not addressing asynchronous messaging. Martin felt that he already had plenty of patterns to write,