New users: use the links in this topic to get concept and reference
information that is useful when you develop publish/subscribe applications.
Publish/subscribe is a style of messaging application in which the providers
of information (publishers) are decoupled from the consumers of that information
(subscribers) using a broker. The following samples are examples of simple
publish/subscribe message flows, and include associated end user applications.
You can view samples only when you use the information center
that is integrated with the Message Brokers Toolkit.
A publish/subscribe application can consist of a network of brokers connected
together. By connecting brokers together, publications can be received by
a client on any broker in the network. A
publish/subscribe
topology consists of the brokers, the collectives, and the connections
between them, that support publish/subscribe applications in the broker domain.
Links to information about setting up a publish/subscribe topology and associated
administration tasks are provided in
How do I plan and configure a broker domain?