Components of the JMS Architecture

The typical JMS architecture is made up of several components. Each component plays a pivotal role in allowing producers and consumers to communicate with one another. The following components are the ones that most often are used in a JMS component architecture:

  • Message producers

  • Message consumers

  • JMS messages

  • Administered JMS objects

  • JNDI naming service

Figure 10.2 shows how these components are structured in a typical JMS architecture.

Figure 10.2. A typical JMS architecture uses several components to produce and consume messages.

You must understand each major component in the architecture. The next sections ...

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