Learning the JMS Fundamentals

JMS provides a unified API for J2EE enterprise applications to create, send, receive, and process messages using any MOM products. These MOM products, also known as JMS providers, implement JMS API so that Java applications can use the JMS API (interfaces and classes) in a vendor-neutral manner. This allows applications to communicate with each other using messages through any JMS provider. Communications between applications occur in an asynchronous manner, which means that a sender sends a message and does not wait for the response, but continues the flow of execution. This is similar to sending an e-mail message, and you don't have to wait for a reply. The difference between JMS messages and e-mail messages is ...

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