The Java Message Service (JMS) defines the standard for reliable Enterprise Messaging. Enterprise messaging, often also referred to as Messaging Oriented Middleware (MOM), is universally recognized as an essential tool for building enterprise applications. By combining Java technology with enterprise messaging, the JMS API provides a powerful tool for solving enterprise computing problems.
Download Java Message Service Sample Programs : This zip file contains some short sample programs that show how to use basic and more advanced features of the JMS API. When you unzip the file, a subdirectory named samples containing the sample programs is created in the current directory. To run the programs, you must have an implementation of the JMS API, such as the Java 2 SDK, Enterprise Edition, version 1.3, installed on your system.
Java Message Service Specification - version 1.1
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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 receiver do not have to be available at the same time in order to communicate. In fact, the sender does not need to know anything about the receiver; nor does the receiver need to know anything about the sender. The sender and the receiver need to know only what message format and what destination to use. In this respect, messaging differs from tightly coupled technologies, such as Remote Method Invocation (RMI), which require an application to know a remote application's methods.
Messaging also differs from electronic mail (e-mail), which is a method of communication between people or between software applications and people. Messaging is used for communication between software applications or software components.
JMS stands for Java Messaging Service which is developed by Sun Microsystems . JMS Provider allow applications which are running on different systems can communicate with each other asynchronously . Many EAI tools support JMS as their standard messaging service.
JMS stands for java messaging services,it is component used to communicate between the two Applications,In a Synchronous or Asynchronous mode.Simillar to the Java Mail,but the difference between the javamail and java messaging services is javamail is like a store and fwd,and also it is between the user and the machine.
The Java Message Service is a Java API that allows applications to create, send, receive, and read messages. Designed by Sun and several partner companies, the JMS API defines a common set of interfaces and associated semantics that allow programs written in the Java programming language to communicate with other messaging implementations.
