Java Message Service [Paperback]

Mark Richards (Author), Richard Monson-Haefel (Author), David A Chappell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0596522045 | ISBN-13: 978-0596522049 | Edition: Second Edition

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.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The Java Message Service (JMS) provides a way for the components of a distributed application to talk asynchronously, or for welding together legacy enterprise systems. Think of it as application-to-application e-mail. Unlike COM, JMS uses one or more JMS servers to handle the messages on a store-and-forward basis, so that the loss of one or more components doesn't bring the whole distributed application to a halt.

JMS consists of a set of messaging APIs that enable two types of messaging, publish-and-subscribe (one-to-many) and point-to-point (one-to-one). The highly lucid explanation of the ways in which these work makes the technical content a lot more approachable. In practice, however, Java Message Service is still a book for Java programmers who have some business programming experience. You need the background.

After a simple JMS demonstration in which you create a chat application using both messaging types, the authors dissect JMS message structures, explore both types in detail, and then move on to real-world considerations. These include reliability, security, deployment, and a rundown of various JMS server providers. The appendices list and describe the JMS API, and provide message reference material.

Considering the complexity and reach of the subject matter, Java Message Service does a great job of covering both theory and practice in a surprisingly efficient manner. It's easy to see why JMS has become so popular so quickly. Recommended. --Steve Patient, Amazon.co.uk --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Mark Richards, Director and Sr. Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting, LLC, is a leading authority on messaging, transaction management, systems integration, and Service Oriented Architecture. He is the author of "Java Transaction Design Strategies", contributing author of "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know", "NFJS Anthology Volume 1", "NFJS Anthology Volume 2", and the author of numerous transaction, JMS, and SOA-related articles. Mark is a regular conference speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour and has spoken at other conferences around the world, including QCon, TSSJS, and SYS-CON.

Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans (Editions 1 - 5), Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts and book authors on enterprise computing. He was the lead architect of OpenEJB, an open source EJB container used in Apache Geronimo, a member of the JCP Executive Committee, member of JCP EJB expert groups, and an industry analyst for Burton Group researching enterprise computing, open source, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. Today, Richard is the VP of Developer Relations for Curl, Inc. a RIA platform used in enterprise computing. You can learn more about Richard at his web site Monson-Haefel.

David A. Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including Architecture, code-slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards.

As author of the O'Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

Chappell is also well noted for authoring Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly). In addition, he has written numerous articles in leading industry publications, such as Business Integration Journal, Enterprise Architect, Java Developers Journal, JavaPro, Web Services Journal, XML Journal and Network World.

Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java™ Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community" in 2002, and the 2005 CRN Magazine "Top 10 IT leaders" award for "casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry".

Product Details

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Second Edition edition (June 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596522045
• ISBN-13: 978-0596522049
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete December 24, 2000

By John M. Harby

Format:Paperback

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 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hits the mark January 3, 2001

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

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 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, practical + good background January 11, 2001

By Cees van Barneveldt

Format:Paperback

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 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable! January 4, 2001

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

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 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference and Practical JMS book March 27, 2001

By Sunil Kuchipudi

Format:Paperback

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A little better than Sun's JMS Tutorial June 5, 2002

By R. Douglas Waldron

Format:Paperback

So, about the book. I had hoped to find suggestions as to
how to optimize JMS throughput. Chapter 7, "Deployment Considerations" should have provided some help.
It asked more questions than it answered and offered no
specific solutions.

Overall, I got a little more out of the book than I did
reading [their] site and tutorial.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars A specification Digest May 9, 2001

By David Sells

Format:Paperback

For me the book had little value. I would have been interested if it had offered some insight and/or examples into ways to set up a distributed system ( jms servers on two systems ) using various protocols. The examples and configurations discussed were the sames as those you would find at javasoft; nothing beyond a star configuration. JNDI is also a very important aspect of the JMS solution which was only thinly covered.

There seems to be a whole series of these kind of books comming out of O'Reilly. Books that are similarly disappointing are the book on threads, beans and JDBC. Again each of these books fail to take the topic beyond the specification. O'Reilly does have some very fine books, especially the Nutshell books, but some just don't have value.