September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
14h 20m
English
The Java Message Service (JMS) introduced us to the concept of Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). The messages created by one JMS implementer are not necessarily compatible with messages from other providers, so pure JMS doesn't give us a great interoperability solution. With what we now know about XML and its role as a portable data format, the use of XML as the format for messages certainly seems like a step in the right direction. Some MOM vendors have already extended their JMS products to deal with XML-formatted messages, but this alone isn't sufficient to ensure complete interoperability. The on-the-wire format between different JMS vendors will still be different. For a Web Service, we want to be ...
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