This section focuses on the point-to-point (PTP) messaging model. In a PTP messaging model, message producers are called senders and consumers are called receivers. They exchange messages by means of a destination called a queue. Senders produce messages to a queue and receivers consume messages from this queue. What distinguishes point-to-point messaging is that a message can be consumed by only one consumer.
Point-to-point messaging is generally used when a single message will be received by only one message consumer. There may be multiple consumers listening on the queue for the same message but only one of the consumers will receive it. Note that there can be multiple producers as well. They ...
