Message exchange pattern (MEP)

The pattern of messages used by an application. There are two major message exchange patterns:

request-response, where one client sends a message and expects a message to be returned
one-way, where a client sends a message without expecting a response

The WSDL specification defines a number of more detailed MEPs that are all variations of the two basic patterns.

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