Towards a common API for publish/subscribe
Peter R. Pietzuch, David M. Eyers, Samuel Kounev, Brian Shand · 2007
Over the last decade a wide range of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems have come out of the research community. However, there is little consensus on a common pub/sub API, which would facilitate innovation, encourage application building, and simplify the evaluation of existing prototypes. Industry pub/sub standards tend to be overly complex, technology-centric, and hard to extend, thus limiting their applicability in research systems.