On adding replies to publish-subscribe
Gianpaolo Cugola, Matteo Migliavacca, Alessandro Monguzzi · 2007
Recently, the publish-subscribe communication model has attracted the attention of developers as a viable alternative to traditional communication schemas, like request/reply, for the flexibility it brings to the architecture of distributed applications, by allowing components to be easily added or removed at run-time. At the same time, first experiences in building complex distributed applications using such model point out how it is often hard to live without a request/reply facility.