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Notification Services Architecture

The Notification Services platform provides an interface for collecting subscriber and subscription data, and contains components that collect events and generate, format, and distribute notifications. In addition to the built-in components, Notification Services enables you to create custom components for collecting events and formatting notifications.

This section provides information about what these components are and how they work.

In This Section

Topic Description

Subscription Management Architecture

Describes how subscriptions are submitted to databases and used by Notification Services applications.

Event Collection Architecture

Describes how event providers collect events.

Subscription Processing Architecture

Describes how the notification generator uses events and subscriptions to create notifications.

Notification Formatting and Delivery Architecture

Describes how the notification distributor formats and delivers notifications.

See Also

Concepts

What Is Notification Services?
Usage Scenarios for Notification Services
Notification Services Programming Framework
Notification Services Deployment Options
Notification Services Security, Reliability, Scalability, and Availability
Notification Services and Other Technologies
Editions of Notification Services

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