EIP-PlantUML provides Enterprise Integrations Patterns elements to PlantUML to provide easy support of designing EIP architectures for both, up-front design as well as development-time automated documentation generation.
Please bear in mind this repository is currently Work in Progress - therefore new features are added regularly and breaking changes might be introduced more often than not.
You will need to download the EIP-PLantUML.puml file from the dist folder.
This files includes everything you need to use the EIP patterns in your PlantUML diagramms.
At the top of your PlantUML model you need to include the EIP-PlantUML.puml file.
!include ../EIP-PlantUML/EIP-PlantUML.pumlAfter including the EIP-PlantUML.puml file you can start using the EIP patterns as shown below.
MsgChannel(channel1, "Channel 1")
MsgChannel(channel2, "Channel 2")
Message(msg, "Message")
Send(channel1, msg)
Send(msg, channel2)
The following pattern are currently supported:
- Message
Message(alias [,label])
- Command Message
CommandMessage(alias [,label])
- Document Message
DocumentMessage(alias [,label])
- Event Message
EventMessage(alias [,label])
- Request-Reply
RequestReply(alias [,label])
- Return Address
ReturnAddress(alias [,label])
- Correlation Identifer
CorrelationIdentifier(alias [,label])
- Message Sequence
MessageSequence(alias [,label])
- Message Expiration
MessageExpiration(alias [,label])
- Pipes and Filters
Pipe(from, to)Filter(alias [,label])
- Message Router
MessageRouter(alias [,label])
- Message Filter
MessageFilter(alias [,label])
- Dynamic Router
DynamicRouter(alias [,label], dynamicrulebase)
- Recipient List
RecipientList(alias [,label])
- Splitter
Splitter(alias [,label])
- Aggregator
Aggregator(alias [,label])
- Messaging Channel
MsgChannel(alias [,label])
- Point-to-Point Channel
P2PChannel(alias [,label] )
- Publish-Subscribe Channel
PubSubChannel(alias [,label])
- Channel Purger
ChannelPurger(alias [,label])
The dynamic message router is one of the more complex patterns. To apply this stencil, you must defne the dynamic rule base to be used for this router.
The following exmaple
rectangle "Dynamic Rulebase" as rulebase
DynamicRouter(dynamicrouter, "My Dynamic Router", rulebase)
Message(msg, "My Message")
Send(msg, dynamicrouter)
MsgChannel(queue1, "My Destination 1")
Send(dynamicrouter, queue1)
MsgChannel(queue2, "My Destination 2")
Send(dynamicrouter, queue2)results in the graphic below:
Enterprise Intergartion Patterns are a set of 65 patterns, mainly based on messaging concepts introduced Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. The Website Enterprise Integration Patterns provides an extensive overview of these patterns.
These patterns come in handy when dealing with large scale enterprise architectures especially based on messaging systems.
While documenting large systems with manual tools like Microsoft Visio takes an enourmous amount of time, PlantUML provides an elegant way of coding such architecures top-down or creating documentation based on your source codes.
There fore the EIP patterns is designed to support this bottom up documentation. The EIP patterns also play well with the C4-PlantUML extension by Ricardo Niepel when it comes to Level 4 of the C4 model.
The C4 Model is a elegant way introduced by Simon Brow for describing and communicating software architectures up-front.
If interested in contributing to this project, please make sure to read the Contribution Guidelines first.
