Preface

When I first started working for IBM in 1998 as a software engineer, Java was still in its infancy and the development of messaging applications in Java was virtually nonexistent. I recall the first major customer I worked with, who was trying to use Java servlets to send messages via MQSeries (as it was then known) to a mainframe application (CICS). Comments like “Customers have started doing this?” were shared by teammates as we stepped up to address the issues at hand. Now Java has grown, server-side Java has exploded, and the use of messaging as a means of integrating applications and processes is as strong as, if not stronger than, ever. Alongside this growth has evolved the importance and benefit of open standards. In the Java world, ...

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