Overview
This overview of the JMS API answers the following questions.
What is messaging?
What is the JMS API?
When can you use the JMS API?
How does the JMS API work with the J2EE platform?
What Is Messaging?
Messaging is a method of communication between software components or applications. A messaging system is a peer-to-peer facility: A messaging client can send messages to, and receive messages from, any other client. Each client connects to a messaging agent that provides facilities for creating, sending, receiving, and reading messages.
Messaging enables distributed communication that is loosely coupled. A component sends a message to a destination, and the recipient can retrieve the message from the destination. However, the sender and the ...
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