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43. Addressing All Instances of a Service

The “destination” parameter is used in a Spring PathMatcher (with the path separator as a colon —  : ) to determine if an instance processes the message. Using the example from earlier, /bus-env/customers:** targets all instances of the “customers” service regardless of the rest of the service ID.