Messaging Paradigms

Message Broker

In the message broker paradigm, messages flow through a centralized store-and-forward server. This paradigm is familiar to user of TIBCO Enmterprise Message Service (EMS) and other JMS systems.

In TIBCO FTL, you can arrange for the FTL server to fill the role of message broker.

Brokered messages travel in two hops, from the publisher to the message broker, and then from broker to subscribers.

Peer-to-Peer Messaging

In peer-to-peer communication, messages can flow directly from a publisher object in one program to subscriber objects in other programs.

Peer-to-peer messages travel immediately from publisher to subscriber, in only one hop. When developing applications that require the lowest latency, use peer-to-peer messaging.