Liferay’s Message Bus is a service level API that components can use to send and receive messages. It provides loose coupling between message producers and consumers. The Message Bus is located in Liferay’s global class loader, making it accessible to every deployed web application. Remote messaging isn’t supported, but messages are sent across a cluster when ClusterLink is enabled.
Here are a few common uses of the Message Bus:
- Sending search index write events
- Sending subscription emails
- Handling messages at scheduler endpoints
- Running asynchronous processes
You can leverage the Message Bus to send messages between and within your plugins.
As you read through the Message Bus tutorials, you’ll learn about synchronous and asynchronous messaging, serial vs. in-parallel message dispatching, and how to style message formats.
Before you get into those topics, you should first learn about the Message Bus system’s architecture.
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Developing with the Plugins SDK