Message-Driven Beans Introduction

Messaging Concepts Introduction

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.
    • The sender and the receiver do not have to be available at the same time in order to communicate.
    • 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 which message format and which destination to use.
  • Messaging also differs from e-mail.
    • E-mail is a method of communication between people or between software applications and people.
    • Messaging is used for communication between software applications or software components.

Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)

Message-oriented middleware is a software application or messaging agent that provides facilities for creating, sending, receiving, and reading messages synchronously or asynchronously between system components.
A client which produces the message is called a producer and the client which receives the message is called a consumer. All the messages sent are stored in a particular location which is called a destination.
Some MOM products: IBM Web-Sphere MQ, ActiveMQ, and Oracle Advanced Queuing.

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