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An application is using Messaging to announce events.

How can the sender broadcast an event to all interested receivers?

Send the event on a Publish-Subscribe Channel, which delivers a copy of a particular event to each receiver.

A Publish-Subscribe Channel works like this: It has one input channel that splits into multiple output channels, one for each subscriber. When an event is published into the channel, the Publish-Subscribe Channel delivers a copy of the message to each of the output channels. Each output channel has only one subscriber, which is only allowed to consume a message once. In this way, each subscriber only gets the message once and consumed copies disappear from their channels.

Related patterns: JMS Publish/Subscribe Example

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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