> Forgive my cinicisism, but if somebody could explain how
> that is different to high-end messaging in the '90s I'd certainly
> appreciate it.
That seems to be the point, except today we're also talking about SOAP, XML-RPC
(XML documents in the payload).
> Also, with queueing of messages, how is this principle
> relevant to smaller enterprises? Since in any one day
> they might only receive about 20 documents.
It's asynchronous (like voicemail) so the sender doesn't have to worry about
establishing a synchronous connection.
Unlike the '90s, you don't have to purchase a messaging middleware product.
Microsoft's MSMQ comes "in the box" with the operating system. There's
freely-downloadable ebXML Messaging software, for example.
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