What is the difference between the real-time and deferred paradigms?
The Real-Time paradigm involves the transmission of one message at a time with the requester waiting for an on-line response from the service. Only one request per workstation may be outstanding at one time. Conceptually the request and response exist only when both applications are connected via CommBridge. The business application program calls CommBridge functions to perform real time exchanges of data. The Deferred paradigm involves the transmission of one message requesting data but does not presume a response from the service in real time mode, i.e., the response can be deferred until sometime in the future. The request and response are processed independently and exist regardless of whether the business applications are available when the message is placed in the queue.
