Message broker is an intermediary program which translates the language of a system from one internationally recognized language to another by way of a telecommunications medium.
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A message broker is an architectural pattern for message validation, message transformation and message routing.[1] It mediates communication amongst applications, minimizing the mutual awareness that applications should have of each other in order to be able to exchange messages, effectively implementing decoupling.
The purpose of a broker is to take incoming messages from applications and perform some action on them. The following are examples of actions that might be taken in the broker:
Many messaging patterns (like publish/subscribe) can work without a message broker. One pattern that requires a message broker is workload queues, that is message queues that are handled by multiple receivers. Such queues must be managed, transacted, and usually stored reliably, at a single point.