webMethods Broker
For maximum messaging performance.
Capabilities
Enterprise-Class Messaging Backbone
Event-driven for the performance-driven enterprise
webMethods Broker is a highly scalable messaging backbone that supports real-time, event-driven and message-oriented interactions for the global enterprise. Meet the most demanding performance requirements of your business, and count on end-to-end transactional integrity, security and reliability for your data.
Support for any messaging style

To get messages across the enterprise, you need to be able to support different styles of messaging. With webMethods Broker, you can support any messaging style over a single backbone to reduce development and maintenance costs.
Supported messaging styles include:
- Publish/subscribe
- Send and receive
- Request/reply
- Request/fulfill
Policy-based clustering

Take advantage of revolutionary fault-tolerant messaging that’s enterprise-class. With policy-based clustering, messages can be sent and received transparently with multiple webMethods Brokers. Centrally managed policies define how to route messages across your enterprise. Changes to these policies are honored without any interruption to existing messaging. Ideal for enterprises with growing messaging needs.
Configurable quality of service
Match messaging quality-of-service to your business requirements. With webMethods Broker, you can configure messages for:- Volatile delivery (at most once) where message loss has no consequences
- Guaranteed delivery (at least once) regardless of network
- Exactly-once delivery to automatically prevent duplicates
- In-order message delivery using a queue


