Summary

We have explored the fundamental concepts involved with messaging services and examples in the context of BEA WebLogic JMS-based messaging services in this chapter. Messaging services provide a means for message producers to send messages to message consumers in an asynchronous and time-independent fashion. Message consumers can also pull messages from a messaging service at their convenience, receive messages directly queued to them from a messaging service, or receive messages to which they've subscribed based on a topic name. Messaging services provide all of this functionality in a manner that enhances the underlying reliability and availability of applications that tap their services.

Although various MOM implementations can be used ...

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