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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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Name

JMSType — Purpose: Identification

Synopsis

JMSType is an optional header set by the JMS client. Its name is somewhat misleading because it has nothing to do with the type of message being sent (BytesMessage, MapMessage, etc.). Its main purpose is to identify the message structure and type of payload; it is only supported by a couple of vendors.

Some MOM systems (e.g., IBM’s MQSeries) treat the message body as uninterpreted bytes and provide applications with a simple way of labeling the body (the message type). So the message type header can be useful when exchanging messages with non-JMS clients that require this type of information to process the payload.

Other MOM systems (such as Sun’s JMQ) and EAI systems (such as SagaVista and MQIntegrator) directly tie each message to some form of external message schema, and the message type is the link. These MOM systems require the message type because they provide metadata services bound to it.

In addition, the JMSType might be used on a application level. For example, a B2B application that uses XML as its message payload might use the JMSType to keep track of which XML DTD the message payload conforms to.

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