Java Message Service, 2nd Edition

Organization

The book is organized into 11 chapters and 4 appendixes. Chapter 1 explains messaging systems, messaging use cases, centralized and distributed architectures, and why JMS is important. Chapters 2 through 6 go into detail about developing JMS clients using the two messaging models, point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe, including how to filter messages using message selectors. Chapters 7 and 10 should be considered “advanced topics,” covering deployment and administration of messaging systems. Chapter 8 provides an overview of the Java 2, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) with regard to JMS, including coverage of message-driven beans as part of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification. Chapter 9 covers the Spring Framework as it relates to messaging. Finally, Chapter 11 provides some insight into many of the design considerations and anti-patterns associated with messaging.

Chapter 1, Messaging Basics

Defines enterprise messaging and common architectures used by messaging vendors. JMS is defined and explained, as are its two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point. Many of the use cases and real-world scenarios for messaging are described in this chapter, as are the basics of the JMS API.

Chapter 2, Developing a Simple Example

Walks the reader through the development of a simple publish-and-subscribe JMS client.

Chapter 3, Anatomy of a JMS Message

Provides a detailed examination of the JMS message, the most important part of the JMS API.

Chapter 4, Point-to-Point ...