Sebastopol, CA--"Current trends in the industry are causing all
businesses to look at new strategies for doing B2B communications over
the Internet. Java Message Service provides a strong platform for doing
guaranteed communications across large communities," says Dave
Chappell, coauthor of the just-released book Java Message Service (O'Reilly, US $34.95).
"Without a doubt, JMS will take center stage as the most important
enterprise technology this coming year. It's absolutely vital to modern
application development and is a really big part of EJB 2.0. There is a
tsunami of practical interest that is rising around JMS and its use in
B2B and EAI, as well as every day enterprise applications--it's going to
be big," adds Richard Monson-Haefel, the book's other coauthor and
writer of the award-winning O'Reilly book Enterprise JavaBeans.
Java Message Service is a thorough introduction to JMS, the standard
Java application program interface (API) from Sun Microsystems that
supports the formal communication known as "messaging" between
computers in a network. JMS provides a common interface to standard
messaging protocols and to special messaging services in support of
Java programs. The messages exchange crucial data between computers,
rather than between users--formation such as event notification and
service requests. Messaging is often used to coordinate programs in
dissimilar systems or written in different programming languages.
Any developer or system architect who has a need to connect
applications together, either within the four walls of their
corporation, or across geographically dispersed locations will benefit
greatly from the information in Java Message Service. The book shows
how to build applications using the point-to-point and
publish-and-subscribe models; how to use features like transactions and
durable subscriptions to make an application reliable; and how to use
messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans. It also introduces a new EJB
type, the MessageDrivenBean, that is part of EJB 2.0, and discusses
integration of messaging into J2EE.
To that, David Chapelle adds: "JMS is an ideal transport mechanism for
passing XML data between business applications in today's B2B
environment. XML provides a way of describing business transactions,
and JMS provides a way of guaranteeing delivery of XML documents
throughout large communities of trading partners. Through its rich
semantics including once-and-only-once guaranteed delivery,
asynchronous store-and-forward capabilities, and transactional
capabilities, it is really the only viable choice for communicating
between business applications over the Internet."
Online Resources:
Java Message Service
By Richard Monson-Haefel & David Chappell
December 2000
ISBN 0-596-00068-5, 220 pages, $34.95 (US)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
