May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
10h 34m
English
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Preface
When I was presented with the opportunity to revise Java Message Service, I jumped at the chance. The first edition, published by O’Reilly in 2000, was a bestseller and without a doubt the definitive source for JMS and messaging in general at that time. Writing the second edition was an exciting chance to breath new life into an already great book and add new content that was relevant to how we use messaging today. What I failed to fully realize when I took on the project was just how much messaging (or, more precisely, how we use messaging) has changed in the past 10 years. New messaging techniques and technologies have been developed, including message-driven beans (as part of the EJB specification), the Spring messaging framework, Event-Driven Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, RESTful JMS interfaces, and the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), to name a few. The somewhat minor book project that I originally planned quickly turned into a major book project.
My original intent was to preserve as much of the original content as possible in this new edition. However, based on changes to the JMS specification since the first edition was written, as well as the development of new messaging techniques and technologies, the original content quickly shrank. As a result, you will find that roughly 75% of this second edition is new or revised content.
The JMS specification was updated to version 1.1 a couple of years after the printing of the first edition of this book. While ...
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