On 19 March 2012 18:35, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> What motivates? Are we trying to eliminate the overhead of ST-style > message passing? Is publish/subscribe easier to understand? Does it lead to > simpler artifacts? Looser coupling? Does it simplify matters of concurrency? > One thing to consider is that once you move away from two-party communication relationships toward N-party relationships, you find yourself in a world where multiple parties are having a *conversation* about some topic, usually to accomplish some shared goal. With point-to-point messaging, the conversation is pretty limited, but with pub/sub you can get some interesting synergies by having multiple participants chipping in whenever they have something to say that drives the conversation as a whole forward. Tony -- Tony Garnock-Jones [email protected] http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/tonyg/
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