Special Edition Using Enterprise JavaBeans™ 2.0

The JMS Interfaces

The JMS API is provided through the main package javax.jms. This API allows an application to create the necessary objects for both the PTP and Pub/Sub models. Different classes and interfaces are required depending on which message model your application needs to implement. The following sections describe the necessary classes and interfaces and provide more detail for each.

Note

Remember that the JMS APIs define the set of interfaces. The vendor that provides the implementation must provide concrete classes for these interfaces. For example, when you create a Topic, the vendor is providing a Topic concrete class that implements the JMS Topic interface. As long as you have the vendor’s classes in your classpath, most of this ...