432 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
13.5.2 Styles of messaging in applications
Applications can use the following styles of asynchronous messaging:
Point-to-point messaging
Point-to-point applications typically use queues to pass messages to each other. An
application sends a message to another application by identifying, implicitly or explicitly, a
destination queue. The underlying messaging and queuing system receives the message
from the sending application and routes the message to its destination queue. The
receiving application can then retrieve the message from the queue.
Publish/subscribe messaging
Publish/subscribe messaging has two types of applications: Publisher and subscriber:
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