Connecting to a different provider

Apache Geronimo is a Java EE 5 certified application server, and thereby provides the ability to plug any resource adapter in, as long as it complies with the JCA 1.5 specification. This means that you can use other JMS providers by deploying their resource adapters on the server. The server will provide connection management, transaction management, lifecycle management, and security for the resource adapters that are deployed on it. This means that we can have Java EE artifacts that can access and utilize JMS resources irrespective of what message broker they are configured on. The access can be done using standard Java EE APIs in a vendor-neutral manner. We will not be covering this in this book as it is similar to how we configured connectivity to ActiveMQ. Most of the third-party message brokers that support Apache Geronimo will have documentation on how to deploy their resource adapters in Apache Geronimo.