Java Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports "messaging" -- the software-to-software exchange of crucial data among network computers. You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar systems and applications, increasing scalability, eliminating system bottlenecks, supporting concurrent processing, and promoting flexibility and agility.
Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor-agnostic specification will help you write messaging-based applications using IBM's MQ, Progress Software's SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging services.
With Java Message Service, you will: - Build applications using point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe messaging models
- Use features such as transactions and durable subscriptions to make an application reliable
- Implement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using message-driven beans
- Use JMS with RESTful applications and with the Spring application framework
Messaging is a powerful paradigm that makes it easier to uncouple different parts of an enterprise application. Java Message Service, Second Edition, will quickly teach you how to use the key technology that lies behind it.
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33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 CompleteDec 24, 2000
By John M. Harby
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It's nice to have some material on JMS - it is very hot so plenty of employers are looking for those who know it. I especially like the way they have a chapter on the new message-driven beans in EJB 2.0. In general, this book is pretty complete covering both P2P and publish-subscribe. They give a decent amount of examples and cover the theory involved. JMS is not rocket science, it is pretty simple so if you've had alot of experience with messaging systems this may be repetitive for you. You could probably save money by checking out the JMS spec. However, if you're new to messaging systems, this will provide a nice, complete intro.
28 of 30 found the following review helpful:
Hits the markJan 03, 2001
I found this book to be a very informative and accurate description of JMS. Having studied the JMS spec in great detail, I thought I knew everything there was to know about it. However, this book spells it out very clearly, puts it together in a way that is easily digestible. It explains the concepts clearly and continually builds on them with working examples as it goes. It provides information on subtleties like why and why not one would use the TopicRequestor object, and provides a very thorough discussion on guaranteed messaging, store-and-forward, and message acknowledgements.It gives a good overview of the popular JMS vendors. In the preface it mentions that the technical reviewers for the book consisted in part of representatives from a number of JMS vendors. It is good to know that one of the co-authors of this book is from the SonicMQ team. Based on the level of detail described in the book, and the extensive list of names in the acknowledgements section, it is clear that David Chappell made good use of expert advice from the SonicMQ engineering team, and from the Sun team (Joe Fialli is the technical lead for Sun's JMS reference implementation). This book is not just a point of view from 2 guys who read a spec and regurgitated it. It is clear that it contains valuable and accurate information on a technology than from the engineers who built an implementation of it - from SonicMQ, Sun's JMS reference implementation, and other JMS vendors.
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Excellent, practical + good backgroundJan 11, 2001
By Cees van Barneveldt
This book hits two flies in one smash: it gives a good background of messaging and JMS, and it is a good tutorial about the JMS API with lots of clear examples. The first chapter gives a good and complete description of the messaging paradigm. Chapter 2-6 is the actual API tutorial. Chapter 2 gives you a simple and complete example of a chat application, chapter 3-6 explain all the aspects of the JMS API. The explanation is very clear and well structured with good feedback to previous explanations and messaging concepts, the reader never gets lost in the explanations and examples. And it is always clear for the reader why things have to be done a certain way. Chapter 6 "Transacted Messages" also gives you a very short description of the JTA (supported by some JMS providers) API for two-phase commit transactions. Actually too short, I could not find a good tutorial in print elsewhere on this topic. Chapter 7 "Deployment Considerations" is a very practical chapter for architects and deals with performance, scalability, reliabity, security, multicasting versus hub and spoke architecture. Chapter 8 "J2EE, EJB, and JMS" describes the place of JMS in the J2EE platform and also describes new MessageDrivenBean type in the EJB2.0 spec. This integration between EJB and JMS has not been described yet in other books about EJB. Chapter 9 describes the products of a couple of JMS providers. This is a very even, complete and well written book. Contrary to what one reviewer suggests, this is not a book about SonicMQ.
17 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Invaluable!Jan 04, 2001
If you are not born as a JMS expert ... If you hate reading dry specs ... If you need to get up to speed on JMS quickly ... If you want to know what to look/ask for when evaluating JMS ... If you learn best by playing with examples (anybody out there who doesn't?)... ... this is the book for you. This book discusses JMS as it applies to real business applications and needs. The spec can't give you that. Invaluable if you ask me!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Excellent reference and Practical JMS bookMar 27, 2001
By Sunil Kuchipudi
I really liked this book and it was very helpful for me as a reference on my desk. I am using this a lot for implementing JMS in my applications.The information is presented much more clearly than the JMS specifications. My only recommendation would be that some UML diagrams would have been helpful to add value to the book.
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