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Broker Api Redesign

Ken Stevens edited this page Mar 18, 2025 · 20 revisions

HAPI-FHIR requires a message broker to provide asynchronous messaging services for

  • subscription processing
  • mdm processing
  • batch processing

Prior to HAPI version 8.2.0, HAPI-FHIR's broker api was built on top of Spring Messaging, a Spring API for JMS, a 1990s Java API for asynchronous message processing. HAPI ships with the simple Spring in-memory implementation of this API.

Since that time, a number of new message broker paradigms have emerged that have moved the industry away from JMS.

In release 8.2.0, HAPI-FHIR decouples the message broker services from Spring Messaging. SpringMessaging adapters are provided for backwards compatibility.

The new API largely mirrors with Spring Messaging API, with a few important differences. Here is a mapping from the old API to the new API.

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