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Choose the right channel for the job

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Choose the right channel for the job

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- [Instructor] Now let's go further on the topic of message channels. Let's have a look at the channel as an enterprise integration pattern, then we'll return to spring integration and end the lesson with the code implementation. As we have learned, a subscribable model allows a consumer to listen for interesting events by subscription. It is sometimes referred to as an event driven or broadcast model of communication. The sibling, the pollable model, requires a consumer to explicitly ask for the latest messages. A queue is not a communication model but rather a data structure that stores messages for retrieval in a specific predetermined order. Let's talk for a minute about channels theoretically, in the context of enterprise integration patterns. The best way I know how to do this, is to read a direct quote from the publication itself. A messaging system manages messaging the way a database system manages data…

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