Six Design Patterns for Event-Processing Applications

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9 October 2009

W Schulte Yefim V. Natis Massimo Pezzini Daniel Sholler Bill Gassman Jess Thompson

Event processing is a vital element in smart systems and continuous-intelligence applications that monitor operations and provide situation awareness. Business systems that leverage event processing generally apply one or more of the six recurring design patterns explained in this research.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

2.0

Six Patterns for Event-Processing Systems

3.0

General Structure of Complex-Event Processing

3.1		How It Works
3.2		Event Capture
3.3		Dissemination and Computation
3.4		Response

4.0

Elementary Event-Processing Application Patterns

4.1

Front-End Event-Processing Subsystem

4.1.1		Description
4.1.2		How It Works
4.1.3		Where to Use This Pattern

4.2

Basic Monitor

4.2.1		Description
4.2.2		How It Works
4.2.3		Where to Use This Pattern

4.3

Operations or Process Monitors

4.3.1		Description
4.3.2		How It Works
4.3.3		Where to Use This Pattern

5.0

Compound Event-Processing Application Patterns

5.1

Heterogeneous Activity Monitor

5.1.1		Description
5.1.2		How It Works
5.1.3		Where to Use This Pattern

5.2

Multistage Continuous Event Processing

5.2.1		Description
5.2.2		How It Works
5.2.3		Where to Use This Pattern

5.3

Enterprise Nervous System

5.3.1		Description
5.3.2		How It Works
5.3.3		Where to Use This Pattern

6.0

What You Need to Know

Recommended Reading

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	General Structure of Event Processing

	Figure 2.	Front-End Event-Processing Subsystem

	Figure 3.	Basic Monitor

	Figure 4.	Operations or Process Monitor

	Figure 5.	Supply Chain Management

	Figure 6.	Multiple Stages in Capital Markets Trading Application

	Figure 7.	Airline ENS

Event Management
Complex Event Processing
Event-Driven Architecture

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