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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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11.1. Overview and Related Methods and Interfaces

A BytesMessage object is used to send a message containing a stream of uninterpreted bytes. It inherits from the Message interface and adds a bytes message body. The receiver of the message supplies the interpretation of the bytes.

The BytesMessage methods are based largely on those found in java.io.DataInputStream and java.io.DataOutputStream.

This message type is for client encoding of existing message formats. If possible, one of the other self-defining message types should be used instead.

Although the JMS API allows the use of message properties with byte messages, they are typically not used, since the inclusion of properties may affect the format.

The primitive types can be written explicitly ...

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