• Circular: this beam identifies a message exchange pattern that originates at a consumer or a service, then meets other services and consumers along the message route, and concludes at the originating entity, namely, circular style
• Hierarchical: a parent/child deployment relationship style formed by services and consumers in a production environment
• Star: a message exchange pattern, in which a single service or consumer is positioned in the center of the star’s extending arms, each of which is comprised of peer services or consumers
• Network: a message exchange pattern that illustrates a many-to-many service and consumer relationship
• Combined: this style combines all the patterns represented by the beams
described in 1-4