Here's how the book is structured. The first chapter explains messaging systems, centralized and distributed architectures, and how and why JMS is important. Chapter 2 through Chapter 5 go into detail about developing JMS clients using the two messaging models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 should be considered "advanced topics," covering deployment and administration of messaging systems. Chapter 8 is an overview of the Java™ 2, Enterprise Edition ( J2EE) with regard to JMS, including coverage of the new message-driven bean in Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0. Finally, Chapter 9 provides a summary of several JMS vendors and their products.
- Chapter 1
Defines enterprise messaging and common architectures used by messaging vendors. JMS is defined and explained, as are its two programming models, publish-and-subscribe and point-to-point.
- Chapter 2
Walks the reader through the development of a simple publish-and-subscribe JMS client.
- Chapter 3
Provides a detailed examination of the JMS message, the most important part of the JMS API.
- Chapter 4
Examines the publish-and-subscribe programming model through the development of a B2B JMS application.
- Chapter 5
Examines the point-to-point programming models through the enhancement of the B2B JMS application developed in Chapter 4.
- Chapter 6
Provides an in-depth explanation of advanced topics, including guaranteed messaging, transactions, acknowledgments, and failures.
- Chapter 7
Provides an in-depth examination of features and issues that should be considered when choosing vendors and deploying JMS applications.
- Chapter 8
Provides an overview of the Java™ 2, Enterprise Edition ( J2EE) with regard to JMS, and also includes coverage of the new JMS-based bean in Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0.
- Chapter 9
Provides a summary of several JMS vendors and their products, including: IBM's MQSeries, Progress' SonicMQ , Fiorano's FioranoMQ , Softwired's iBus, Sun's JMQ , BEA's WebLogic, and Exolab's OpenJMS.
- Appendix A
Provides a quick reference to the classes and interfaces defined in the JMS package.
- Appendix B
Provides detailed information about message headers.
- Appendix C
Provides detailed information about message properties.
- Appendix D
Provides detailed information about message selectors.