Day 13. Understanding JMS and Message-Driven Beans

Today we'll explore the Java Message Service (JMS) and give a brief account of message-driven beans. JMS is the standard API used by J2EE applications to access Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) services. Messaging is the ability of applications to interact and communicate with each other asynchronously. This is different from e-mail messaging, which takes place between humans. Message-driven applications are designed to accomplish loose coupling and portability. Each part of these enterprise applications can be developed as self-contained business components, and then can be integrated into a reliable yet flexible system. In general, messaging plays an important role in any large enterprise, ...

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