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Difference Between Publisher Subscriber Model and Client Service Model

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asked 2016-06-21 10:27:23 -0500

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What exactly is the difference between the two? From what I gather, messages in a publisher/subscriber are only sent one way from publisher to subscriber but in the client/service model, messages can go both ways. Is this correct?

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answered 2016-06-21 11:28:13 -0500

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There is a bit more to publish/subscribe and client/server (or remote-procedure-call) than just the direction in which messages flow.

A good paper that discusses the main benefits of the publish/subscribe communication style and compares it to traditional remote procedure call is The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe by Patrick Eugster et al.

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