Message

Message in its most general meaning is the object of communication. Depending on the context, the term may apply to both the information contents and its actual presentation.

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In the communications discipline, a message is information which is sent from a source to a receiver. Some common definitions include:

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• Any thought or idea expressed briefly in a plain or secret language, prepared in a form suitable for transmission by any means of communication.
• An arbitrary amount of information whose beginning and end are defined or implied.
• Record information, a stream of data expressed in plain or encrypted language (notation) and prepared in a format specified for intended transmission by a telecommunications system.

In computing, and more particularly in distributed communication, a message is a data item that is asynchronously sent from one process or thread or endpoint to another process or thread or endpoint.

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In the Actor model a message is similarly an Actor itself that is sent asynchronously from one Actor to another.

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In languages such as Smalltalk-80 and Objective-C an instance of a class method is called (confusingly) a message.

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See also: Instant messaging, Message Oriented Middleware

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