Chapter 4. JBossMQ—The JBoss JMS Messaging Service Implementation

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The Java Message Service (JMS) is an asynchronous message delivery abstraction. JMS plays an important role in enterprise integration scenarios because it allows for decoupled communication. This means that a message sender does not have to have a direct connection to the ultimate recipient of the message, as is the case for remote procedure call- (RPC) based EJBs. JMS has been around as a specification since August of 1998, but only as of EJB 2.0 and J2EE 1.3 has it been incorporated fully into the J2EE standards. The JBoss messaging service (JBossMQ) is an implementation of the JMS 1.0.2 ...

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