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Java Message Service
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Java Message Service

by David A Chappell, Richard Monson-Haefel
December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 9m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix C. Message Properties

Message properties are additional headers that can be assigned to a message. They provide the application developer or JMS vendor with the ability to attach more information to a message. The Message interface provides several accessor and mutator methods for reading and writing properties. Properties can have a String value, or one of several primitive (boolean, byte, short, int, long, float, double) values. The naming of properties, together with their values and conversion rules, are strictly defined by JMS.

Property Names

Properties are name-value pairs. The name, called the identifier, can be just about any String that is a valid identifier in the Java language. With a couple of exceptions, the rules that apply to naming a property are the same as those that apply to the naming of variables. One difference between a JMS property name and a Java variable name is that a property name can be any length. In addition, property names are prohibited from using one of the message selector reserved words. These words include: NOT, AND, OR , BETWEEN, LIKE, IN, IS, NULL, TRUE, and FALSE.

The property names used in JMS-defined properties and provider-specific properties use predefined prefixes. These prefixes (JMSX and JMS_) may not be used for application property names.

Property Values

Property values can be any boolean , byte, short, int, long, float, double, or String. The javax.jms.Message interface provides accessor and mutator methods for each of ...

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