Get more information, related links, and download your free copy of the ECOstructure Accelerated Blueprint. MOM is critical for large, distributed companies that need to link multiple internal applications, or in any company that's trying to communicate with suppliers and customers and needs to hook up with their systems. MOM is an important infrastructure in the world of B2B commerce. And most of the application integration players incorporate MOM into their server platforms.
Applications make requests by passing messages directly to the middleware.
MOM inherently supports an event-driven mode of processing, and communication may be synchronous or asynchronous. Event-driven is another term for action item or function call. Let's say you work in a bank, and you put in a request for a loan approval. Another request might look for the person's current accounts at the bank or check on the applicant's current employment. Another example is that you can say that every time the Dow goes up to a certain level, get me the top 10 companies in terms of volume.