Debate over Domain Agnostic Connections
I recently introduced after a proof of concept and technology Service Integration Bus to enable Event Driven Architecture style integration across the commercial enterprise. The first team implemented it exactly as the POC specified. The second team that was responsible to be the durable subscriber raised concerns about Domain Agnostic Connection factories. The claim was that using domain Specific Connection Factories makes life easier. The basic difference between the two is that one uses for example TopicConnectionFactory to create a TopicConnection, whereas the domain independent connection factory lets you look up a ConnectionFactory to create either a TopicConnection or a QueueConnection. This lets you get flexibility in the app and is basically a new feature in JMS specs. Anyway the second team was up in arms about using domain agnostic connection factories. “Why is architecture recommending this? It’s making life difficult for us!”. Of course the first thing you learn in s...