Receive or create the message at the integration boundary.
Messaging Channels
Messaging Bridge
Connect separate brokers or channel technologies and forward messages between them while preserving the semantics needed by each side.
How can multiple messaging systems be connected so that messages available on one are also available on the others?Adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns under CC BY 3.0. The visualization and explanatory content on this page are original GateSift material.
Original GateSift visualization
How Messaging Bridge works
The pattern introduces a clear integration responsibility between message production and consumption.
Producer
Messaging Bridge
Consumer
Apply Messaging Bridge to solve the recurring design problem.
Continue the message flow with clearer responsibilities and lower coupling.
What this pattern helps you decide
Connect separate brokers or channel technologies and forward messages between them while preserving the semantics needed by each side.
What happens when processing fails or the same message is delivered twice?
Where does state, correlation or routing configuration live?
How will operators trace the message and understand the decision path?
Where you may see it
- Service Bus to Kafka bridge
- Event Hubs Kafka endpoint
- BizTalk bridging MQSeries and Service Bus
How the analyzers can surface it
- Cross-adapter flows
- Protocol and broker transitions
Pattern detection is contextual. GateSift should present these as architectural signals, not claim a pattern is implemented solely because one policy statement or adapter exists.
Source, licence and attribution
The pattern name and selected problem statement are adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf under CC BY 3.0. GateSift summaries, Azure mappings, analyzer guidance and diagrams are original. No endorsement by the original authors is implied.