Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

by Hohpe Gregor

Each request-reply service also needs to support the concept of a Return Address (159). A Return Address (159) allows the caller (the service consumer) to specify the channel where the service should send the reply message. This is important to allow the service to be reused in different contexts, each of which may require its own channel for reply messages.