It probably doesn't help that books on the subject have desperately unhip titles like "Enterprise Integration Patterns". The introduction to that book is actual

It probably doesn't help that books on the subject have desperately unhip titles like "Enterprise Integration Patterns". The introduction to that book is actually a great essay on when and how to use asynchronous messaging, and it is online here: http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/Introduction.html http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/Introduction.ht...