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Remote message points
A remote message point is a messaging engine runtime view of any message point that is associated with a remote messaging engine. Remote message points are dynamically created and destroyed when they are required by the bus; you do not have to configure them explicitly.
Message points provide a physical location to reliably store messages. In a bus that contains many messaging engines, message points can be defined on a subset of the messaging engines in that bus. However, an application can attach to any messaging engine in the bus, and can therefore produce or consume messages to or from destinations that do not have a suitable message point on the messaging engine to which the application is attached.
When an application produces messages, the messages must be moved from the messaging engine for the application to a messaging engine with a suitable message point, and vice versa when an application consumes messages. Remote message points provide a reliable mechanism to move these messages from one messaging engine to another; the remote message points maintain information required to ensure messages are delivered correctly according to the messages' reliability.
Where necessary, messages are queued on a remote message point while awaiting delivery to the intended message point. This runtime information can be monitored and, where appropriate, managed by an administrator.
Each remote message point that exists on a messaging engine has a corresponding representation on the messaging engine that owns the message point.
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