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What are Topics?

Create a Topic

Modify a Topic

Delete a Topic

What are Topics?

In contrast to queues, in which each message is processed by a single consumer, topics and subscriptions provide a one-to-many form of communication, in a publish/subscribe pattern. They are useful for scaling to a very large numbers of recipients as each published message is made available to each subscription registered with the topic.

Messages are sent to a topic and delivered to one or more associated subscriptions, depending on filter rules that can be set on a per-subscription basis. The subscriptions can use additional filters to restrict the messages that they want to receive. Messages are sent to a topic in the same way they are sent to a queue, but messages are not received from the topic directly. Instead, they are received from subscriptions. A topic subscription resembles a virtual queue that receives copies of the messages that are sent to the topic. Messages are received from a subscription identically to the way they are received from a queue.

Create a Topic

1.     Select the Master Data tab.

2.     Click Topics.

A list of the existing topics is shown.

3.     Click Add.

The new topic dialog opens.

4.     Enter a name and description for the topic.

5.     Click Save.

The topic is saved.

Modify a Topic

1.     Select the Master Data tab.

2.     Click Topics.

3.     Select a topic.

4.     Click Edit.

The topic dialog opens.

5.     Modify the name and description of the topic.

6.     Click Save.

The topic is updated.

Delete a Topic

1.     Select the Master Data tab.

2.     Click Topics.

3.     Select a topic.

4.     Click Delete.

5.     Click Yes to confirm.

The topic is deleted.