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An application is using Messaging. The application needs multiple consumers on a single Message Channel to work in a coordinated fashion.

How can multiple consumers on a single channel coordinate their message processing?

Create a Message Dispatcher on a channel that will consume messages from a channel and distribute them to performers.

A Message Dispatcher consists of two parts:

Related patterns: Competing Consumers, Datatype Channel, Remote Procedure Invocation, Event-Driven Consumer, Message Channel, Selective Consumer, Messaging, Point-to-Point Channel, Polling Consumer, Publish-Subscribe Channel, Claim Check, Transactional Client

Find the full description of this pattern in: Enterprise Integration Patterns Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf ISBN 0321200683 650 pages Addison-Wesley

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