asynchronous messaging Last modified: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Asynchronous messaging describes communications that takes place between two applications or systems, where the system places a message in a message queue (called an Event Queue in enterprise messaging systems) and does not need to wait for a reply to continue processing. Contrast with synchronous messaging.
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