How to Create Message-Driven Beans

Message-Driven beans are very similar to Stateless Session beans in terms of life cycle. There are a few major differences between Message-Driven beans and other types of beans, such as Session beans and Entity beans:

  • Message-Driven beans are server-side only components, so unlike other beans, they do not have home or component interfaces.

  • Message-Driven beans have one and only one business method, onMessage(), that is invoked by the container when a message is received. Other beans may have multiple business methods and their calls are serialized.

  • Each deployed Message-Driven bean is associated with the JMS destination specified in the deployment descriptor. Other beans can receive calls from any clients.

  • Due ...

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