Message-oriented middleware

Type of software or hardware infrastructure

Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software or hardware infrastructure supporting sending and receiving messages between distributed systems. Message-oriented middleware is in contrast to streaming-oriented middleware where data is communicated as a sequence of bytes with no explicit message boundaries. Note that steaming protocols are almost always built above protocols using discrete messages such as frames Ethernet), datagrams UDP, packets IP, cells ATM, et al.

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