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Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java
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Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

by Kamalmeet Singh, Ianculescu, Lucian-Paul Torje
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
7h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Idempotency pattern

When we are aiming for message-driven and asynchronous communication, it can bring some challenges along. For example, if a duplicate message is added to the system, will it corrupt the state? Say we have a bank-account update service, and we send a message to add $1,000 to the account. What if we have a duplicate message? How will the system make sure it does not add the money twice just because a duplicate message is received? Also, how will this system differentiate between a duplicate message and a new message?

There are various techniques that can be used to handle to this problem. The most common is to add a message number or ID to each message, so the system can make sure that each message with a unique ID gets ...

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