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Java™ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE™ Platform
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Java™ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE™ Platform

by Mark Hapner, Rich Burridge, Rahul Sharma, Joseph Fialli, Kim Haase
February 2002
Beginner to intermediate
544 pages
10h 23m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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6.2. Using Message-Driven Beans

As we noted in Section 1.4 on page 6, the J2EE platform supports a new kind of enterprise bean, the message-driven bean, which allows J2EE applications to process JMS messages asynchronously. Session beans and entity beans allow you to send messages and to receive them synchronously but not asynchronously.

A message-driven bean is a message listener that can reliably consume messages from a queue or a durable subscription. The messages may be sent by any J2EE component—from an application client, another enterprise bean, or a Web component—or from an application or a system that does not use J2EE technology.

Like a message listener in a standalone JMS client, a message-driven bean contains an onMessage method that ...

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