Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Messaging
A client can be set up to synchronously or asynchronously receive messages. With synchronous delivery, a client can request the next message from a MessageConsumer by using one of the receive methods. Three different receive methods can be used:
receive— Receive the next message for this consumer
receive(long timeout)— Receive the next message that arrives within the timeout interval
receiveNoWait— Receive the next message if one is immediately available
A JMS consumer can also receive messages asynchronously. The client registers an object that implements the MessageListener interface with the JMS server. When messages arrive for a particular MessageConsumer that has a MessageListener registered, the ...
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