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Reliable Messaging

(Little, Rischbeck, Simon)



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How can services communicate reliably when implemented in an unreliable environment?  

Problem

Service communication cannot be guaranteed when using unreliable messaging protocols or when dependent on an otherwise unreliable environment.

Solution

An intermediate reliability mechanism is introduced into the inventory architecture, ensuring that message delivery is guaranteed.

Application

Middleware, service agents, and data stores are deployed to track message deliveries, manage the issuance of acknowledgements, and persist messages during failure conditions.

Impacts

Using a reliability framework adds processing overhead that can affect service activity performance. It also increases composition design complexity and may not be compatible with Atomic Service Transaction.

Principles

Service Composability

Architecture

Inventory, Composition
 
When building services as Web services, this pattern is commonly applied by implementing a combination of the WS-ReliableMessaging standard (A) and guaranteed delivery extensions, such as a persistent repository (B). This figure highlights the typical moving parts of the resulting reliability framework.
Audio Podcast
This pattern is discussed as part of the audio podcast:

The ESB and Related Messaging Patterns
 

Related Patterns in This Catalog

Asynchronous Queuing (Little, Rischbeck, Simon), Canonical Resources (Erl), Event-Driven Messaging (Little, Rischbeck, Simon), Message Metadata (Erl), Service Agent (Erl), Service Callback (Karmarkar), Service Messaging (Erl), State Messaging (Karmarkar)


Related Patterns in Other Catalogs

Guaranteed Delivery (Hohpe, Woolfe)


Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals

Increased Vendor Diversification Options, Reduced IT Burden

SOA Design Patterns This page contains excerpts from:

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Foreword by Grady Booch

With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy,
Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others.

(ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages)

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The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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