Basic JMS API Concepts

This section introduces the most basic JMS API concepts, the ones you must know to get started writing simple JMS client applications:

  • JMS API architecture

  • Messaging domains

  • Message consumption

The next section introduces the JMS API programming model. Later sections cover more advanced concepts, including the ones you need to write J2EE applications that use message-driven beans.

JMS API Architecture

A JMS application is composed of the following parts.

  • A JMS provider is a messaging system that implements the JMS interfaces and provides administrative and control features. An implementation of the J2EE platform at release 1.3 and later includes a JMS provider.

  • JMS clients are the programs or components, written in the Java ...

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