The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Writing Simple JMS Client Applications

This section shows how to create, package, and run simple JMS client programs packaged as stand-alone application clients. These clients access a J2EE server. The clients demonstrate the basic tasks that a JMS application must perform:

• Creating a connection and a session

• Creating message producers and consumers

• Sending and receiving messages

In a J2EE application, some of these tasks are performed, in whole or in part, by the container. If you learn about these tasks, you will have a good basis for understanding how a JMS application works on the J2EE platform.

This section covers the following topics:

• An example that uses synchronous message receives

• An example that uses a message listener

• Running JMS clients ...