16.1. Overview and Related Interfaces

A Destination object encapsulates a provider-specific address. The JMS API does not define a standard address syntax. Although a standard address syntax was considered, it was decided that the differences in address semantics between existing message-oriented middleware (MOM) products were too wide to bridge with a single syntax.

Since Destination is an administered object, it may contain provider-specific configuration information in addition to its address.

The JMS API also supports a client's use of provider-specific address names.

Destination objects support concurrent use.

A Destination object is a JMS administered object.

JMS administered objects are objects containing configuration information that ...

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