Java™ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE™ Platform

Chapter 3. The JMS API Programming Model

The basic building blocks of a JMS application consist of

• Administered objects: connection factories and destinations

• Connections

• Sessions

• Message producers

• Message consumers

• Messages

Figure 3.1 shows how all these objects fit together in a JMS client application.

Figure 3.1. The JMS API Programming Model

This chapter describes all these objects briefly and provides sample commands and code snippets that show how to create and use the objects. The last section briefly describes JMS API exception handling.

Examples that show how to combine all these objects in applications appear in later chapters. For more details, ...