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Messaging Strengths

Messaging systems provide several unique advantages over traditional functionally coupled applications. The following list highlights some of these strengths:

• Communications between dissimilar systems

• Communications between highly dynamic components

• Asynchronous communications

• Fully offline communications

• Broadcast communications

• Efficient use of bandwidth

Enhancing Large-Scale Application Development with Messaging

Messaging can solve several critical problems that arise in large-scale application development. Messaging systems are often used to communicate between two nodes that are not always available at the same time. Comparing the postal system to the phone system is a good way to contrast message-oriented services with ...