Application-oriented networking

<h2 id="routing-decisions">Routing decisions</h2>
<p>During the rise of the internet many routing decisions were made at <a href="/facts/Layer_4/UmIGUCeK">layer 4</a> i.e. based on the <a href="/facts/TCP%2fIP/KNkxtSpw">TCP/IP</a> address and/or the port number. Application-oriented networks work at <a href="/facts/Layer_7/oxN9Xhjz">layer 7</a> of the <a href="/facts/OSI_stack/oxN9Xhjz">OSI stack</a> and because they can examine the content of the message they can make routing decisions based on many different criteria including such things as the value of the purchase order or the ship date.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Enterprise_Application_Integration/EaXMz4mI">Enterprise Application Integration</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/sridharg/2008/11/14/XML+Security+Features+in+Netscaler+9.0">XML Security in Netscaler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/AON">Definition</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"What is an application network?". MuleSoft. Retrieved 2023-11-24. <a href="https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/api/what-is-an-application-network" target="_blank">https://www.mulesoft.com/resources/api/what-is-an-application-network</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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