The "Routing Rule" Step (REST)
The Routing Rule step is required. You can choose one of the following protocols in your Routing Rule step for routing the requests:
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"Straight Through" routing (to route requests directly to the native service endpoint).
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"Context-Based" routing (to route specific types of messages to specific endpoints according to context-based routing rules).
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"Content-Based" routing (to route specific types of messages to specific endpoints based on specific values that appear in the request message).
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"Load Balancing" routing (to distribute requests among multiple endpoints).