Java Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE Platform

This book provides an introduction to the Java Message Service (JMS) API for new users. Also introduces the JMS API to new users, with simple JMS client program examples and shows how to use the JMS API within the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

Topics covered: Introduction to messaging, the Java Message Service (JMS) API architecture, point-to-point and publish/subscribe messaging domains described, essential JMS programming APIs (connections, sessions, message producers and consumers), the structure of messages, simple point-to-point and publish/subscribe examples (including guide to deployment and execution), JMS used with multiple systems (including J2EE and non-J2EE messaging interoperability), JMS reliability mechanisms (acknowledgement, persistence, priority levels, durable subscriptions, local transactions), building J2EE clients used with message, session, and entity beans (including deployment and execution tips), a sample using multiple J2EE servers, reference to all JMS APIs: including topic and message classes, exception classes, queue classes, sessions and connections, and appendix with JMS client examples.