Java EE 7 Development with WildFly

The building blocks of JMS

The basic building blocks of any JMS application consist of the following:

• Administered objects—connection factories and destinations
• Connections
• Sessions
• Message producers
• Message consumers
• Messages

Let's take a closer look at them:

• Connection factory: This object encapsulates a set of connection configuration parameters that have been defined by an administrator. A client uses it to create a connection with a JMS provider. A connection factory hides provider-specific details from JMS clients and abstracts administrative information into objects in the Java programming language.
• Destination: This is the component a client uses to specify the target of messages it produces and the source of messages it consumes. In the point-to-point ...