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Message-oriented middleware

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Message Oriented Middleware is a category of inter-application communication software that relies on asynchronous message passing as opposed to a request/response metaphore.

Most message oriented middleware (MOM) is based around a message queue system, although there are implementations that rely on a broadcast or multicast messaging system.