Towards Designing Reliable Messaging Patterns

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Abstract

Reliable communication is nowadays pervasively supported by TCP, which is poorly adapted for message-based communications, because it offers a streaming channel with no mechanisms to encapsulate messages. Moreover, TCP does not tolerate connection crashes. Thus, whenever reliable message- based communication is needed, developers either use heavy-weight middleware, like Java Message Service (JMS), or develop their own custom error-prone solutions for recovering from crashes. In this paper, we introduce two TCP-based design patterns that address these limitations, and facilitate the development of light-weight and reliable message-based applications. Our design solutions are modular, in the sense that they build on top of each other.

Conference

The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2016) 2016