Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 16. Publish/Subscribe Systems

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• Introduction

• Publish/Subscribe Using Callback Contracts

• Publish/Subscribe Using MSMQ Pragmatic Multicasting

• Publish/Subscribe Using Streaming

• References

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Introduction

In “publish/subscribe systems[...]processes can subscribe to messages containing information on specific subjects, while other processes produce (that is, publish) such messages” (Tannenbaum and van Steen 2002, 701). Publish/subscribe systems are required in many scenarios. In the financial industry, subscriptions to prices are needed. Subscriptions to sensor data and to information about other equipment are required in manufacturing. In computer systems administration, the administrators need to subscribe ...