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message
A message is a series of bytes of information formatted according to the
Diffusion™
protocol which can be sent between components utilizing
Diffusion
.
message queue
A queue of messages. Each client connection to
Diffusion
has such a queue on
the
Diffusion
server
upon which messages are put for sending to the client.
queue
metadata
Data about data. In
Diffusion
metadata is used to define the structure of messages.
message metadata
multicast
To send data to several recipients at the same time.
The datagrid uses multicasting to locate other datagrid nodes.