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When two applications communicate via Messaging, the communication is one-way. The applications may want a two-way conversation.
When an application sends a message, how can it get a response from the receiver?
Send a pair of Request-Reply messages, each on its own channel.
Request-Reply has two participants:
...Related patterns: Command Message, Correlation Identifier, Document Message, Remote Procedure Invocation, Event Message, Guaranteed Delivery, Message, Message Channel, Message Sequence, Messaging, Point-to-Point Channel, Polling Consumer, Publish-Subscribe Channel, Return Address
For a full description of the pattern see:
 | Enterprise Integration Patterns
Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf ISBN 0321200683 650 pages Addison-Wesley |
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