The Message Exchange Pattern (MEP) is an architecture design, which describes how two or more parties will connect and exchange messages amongst themselves. Understanding different MEP options is crucial to create correct architecture design for the Hybrid Integration solution.
There are three MEPs.
Datagram MEP uses one-way messaging pattern with fire and forget rule. In Datagram MEP, the message is sent with unidirectional and asynchronously without waiting for reply from the receiver. The number of message recipients can be single (point-to-point), a list of recipients (multicast), or a broadcast with a publish-subscribe mechanism:
Datagram or one-way messaging communication is a powerful way to build more event-driven applications and take advantage of non-blocking service invocation patterns.
One-way messaging pattern is a fundamental concept, which can be extended within other transport protocol. It has multiple benefits that can be...