Chapter 62 Request-Reply

As real-time and embedded applications become more complex, and require integration with enterprise applications, you may need additional communication patterns besides publish-subscribe. Perhaps your application needs certain information only occasionally—such as changes in temperature over the past hour, or even just once, such as application configuration data that is required only at startup. To get information only when needed, Connext supports a request-reply communication pattern, which is described in the following sections: