Defining a push notification pattern

Push notification patterns are used if an enterprise application wants to send push notifications to the mobile devices. The steps involved in defining the push notification are depicted in the following diagram:

Enterprise applications typically use a backend service that is running on the mobile integration server to push the notification messages to devices. The following are the main steps in the workflow of the process:

1. The enterprise application sends a push notification to the mobile device using the ESB and mobile backend service
2. Once the ESB receives the notification, it calls the mobile backend service to send push notifications to the mobile device
3. Messages pass through the mobile integration server to reach the mobile application and the mobile device

At the start of the chapter, we discussed several types of external applications...