Receive or create the message at the integration boundary.
Integration Styles
Remote Procedure Invocation
Expose behavior through a callable interface so one application invokes another directly. It is intuitive but creates temporal and availability coupling between caller and provider.
How can I integrate multiple applications so that they work together and can exchange information?Adapted from Enterprise Integration Patterns under CC BY 3.0. The visualization and explanatory content on this page are original GateSift material.
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How Remote Procedure Invocation works
The pattern introduces a clear integration responsibility between message production and consumption.
Producer
Remote Procedure Invocation
Consumer
Apply Remote Procedure Invocation to solve the recurring design problem.
Continue the message flow with clearer responsibilities and lower coupling.
What this pattern helps you decide
Expose behavior through a callable interface so one application invokes another directly. It is intuitive but creates temporal and availability coupling between caller and provider.
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
- HTTP APIs behind Azure API Management
- gRPC or SOAP services
- Synchronous Logic App calls
How the analyzers can surface it
- APIM backend calls
- BizTalk WCF and HTTP send ports
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.