Chapter 13. Sending Messages
Most of the communications between components that you have seen so far are synchronous: one class calls another, a managed bean invokes an EJB, which calls an entity, and so on. In such cases, the invoker and the target have to be up and running for the communication to succeed, and the invoker must wait for the target to complete before proceeding. With the exception of asynchronous calls in EJB, most Java EE components use synchronous calls (local or remote). When we talk about messaging, we mean loosely coupled, asynchronous communication between components.
Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software (a provider) that enables asynchronous messages between heterogeneous systems. It can be seen as a buffer between ...
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