Product: OpenFusion Notification Service

Version: ALL

Description:

When to use the OpenFusion Notification Service?

Resolution:

Use OpenFusion Notification when you have to solve any of the following problems:

• You want to exploit the flexibility of the message oriented paradigm in a standards-compliant way
• Your applications must handle thousands of events per second between multiple suppliers and consumers
• Your applications need guaranteed once and only once delivery of events
• You need to route messages based on their content
• You need sophisticated control of your messaging software
• Your applications are deployed in diverse hardware and software environments.

OpenFusion Notification can be used in a huge range of applications across all industry sectors. For example, in Telecoms, a common application of OpenFusion Notification is in network management. Alarms and other information produced by switches are sent as messages to alarm management applications and other interested users. Neither the switch manager nor the receiving applications have any direct connection to each other, so they can concentrate on their core tasks without worrying about alarm propagation, receipt or confirmation. OpenFusion Notification takes care of message delivery and propagation - a fire-and-forget strategy.

In Finance, when a stock feed application needs to connect individually to its client (who may not all even be on-line at any one time), real-time performance suffers and the activities of one client could have direct bearing on all the others. When OpenFusion Notification is used, this restriction is removed and performance is maximized.