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registering a claim and then between registering the claims and the rest of the
claims handling process.
Application::Decomposition
The Decomposition pattern addresses this requirement. The
Application::Decomposition pattern shown in Figure 6-3 on page 97 extends the
hub-and-spoke architecture provided by the Application::Router pattern. It
decomposes a single, compound request from a client into several, simpler
requests and intelligently routes them to multiple back-end applications.
Typically, the responses from these multiple back-end applications are
recomposed into a single response and sent back to the client.
The decomposition tier would typically be implemented by a workflow process, in
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