Most clients connect to the Diffusion™ server only to subscribe to topics and receive message data on those topics. Some clients can also perform control actions such as creating and updating topics or handling events.

Subscribe to topics and receive data

The majority of clients that connect to the Diffusion server , do so to subscribe to topics and receive updates that are published to those topics. These are the clients used by your customers to interact with the data your organization provides.

Control Diffusion , other clients, or the data

You can also develop clients that control aspects of the Diffusion server , other clients, or the data distributed by Diffusion . These are the clients that are used by users or systems inside your organization.