43.1. Overview and Related Interfaces
A Session object is a single-threaded context for producing and consuming messages. Although it may allocate provider resources outside the Java virtual machine (JVM), it is considered a lightweight JMS object.
A session serves several purposes:
It is a factory for its message producers and consumers.
It supplies provider-optimized message factories.
It supports a single series of transactions that combine work spanning its producers and consumers into atomic units.
It defines a serial order for the messages it consumes and the messages it produces.
It retains messages it consumes until they have been acknowledged.
It serializes execution of message listeners registered with its message consumers.
A session can ...
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