An Overview of JMS
JMS is an API that describes interface-to-client/server messaging systems. Client/server messaging systems are commonly referred to as message-oriented middleware (MOM), and have been around for many years in the form of proprietary offerings. The purpose of the JMS API is to provide a vendor-independent API for using MOM services from Java. To use JMS as the API for a particular MOM provider, the vendor must provide an implementation of the JMS API. For JBoss, the default JMS provider is JBossMQ and clients must use the jbossmq-client.jar supplied with the JBoss distribution to use the JBossMQ JMS implementation.
A message-based architecture is useful when the following are present:
Components do not have tight coupling in ...
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