Introduction to Messaging

Messaging applications, or as they are sometimes called, Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) products, have been used for quite some time. These messaging products help applications that normally are not connected to one another structurally communicate with each other. In applications that aren’t using a messaging product, this communication might be performed using sockets, RMI, or in various other ways. A few problems are associated with communicating between applications using one of these approaches.

One of the problems is that each side involved in the communication might have direct knowledge about one another. Each side is aware of the other with respect to the transport protocol and other low-level details. This ...

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