Message Oriented
Although some traditional message-oriented middleware products like IBM's MQSeries support Java, the real story is a new standard from JavaSoft called Java Message Service. JMS is attracting a critical mass of messaging vendors that seek to bind their products tightly with Java.
JMS adds a common API and provider framework to Java, which enables the Java developer to dispatch and receive messages with other Java-enabled applications or applets that exist anywhere on the network (see Figure 8.1). JMS defines a common set of messaging concepts and programming strategies. It provides a good mix of the messaging features common to most messaging products—important, yes, but hardly revolutionary. The difficulty is to support these ...
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