Professional JMS [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Scott Grant (Author), Michael P. Kovacs (Author), Meeraj Kunnumpurath (Author), Silvano Maffeis (Author), K. Scott Morrison (Author), Gopalan Suresh Raj (Author), Paul Giotta (Author), James McGovern (Author)

Book Description

Series: Programmer to Programmer | Publication Date: March 2001

This book shows how you can use the Java Message Service (JMS) to create robust, asynchronous, loosely-coupled Java applications. It covers both the fundamental and advanced features of the latest 1.02 API, in both the Point-to-Point and Publish/Subscribe messaging domains. With JMS provision becoming mandatory in the next generation of J2EE 1.3 application servers, this book will prepare you for building portable, messaging-enabled web and middle tier solutions, including the use of the new message-driven EJBs. It also covers the emerging uses of messaging in the mobile domain, and the strong relationship that is building between new XML messaging standards, and small footprint JMS clients. Finally, the book also provides a practical guide to the use of JMS against many of the leading messaging vendors available, including JMQ, FioranoMQ, WebLogic, and iBus//MessageServer.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Professional JMS lifts the lid on the collection of data communications technologies known collectively as the Java Message Service (JMS). Don't approach this book without a very solid grounding in Java network programming and familiarity with the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) environment, because the authors don't slow down for stragglers.

The book explains one technology after another, each in terms of its place in larger distributed computing solutions. That, together with the fact that most of the code samples are long and rather sophisticated, makes this book best suited to systems architects and programmers in the early phases of their work.

A typical discussion of a JMS technology begins with an architectural overview of what it's for. These discussions include numerous boxes, clip-art computers, arrows, and database cylinders, with labeled messages moving along the interconnections. Explanations of specifications for software systems that solve particular business problems follow, along with the code that does the job. Critical sections of these passages are commented, often with tables that detail what's in the messages flowing back and forth among pieces of the system. Where relevant, utilities that handle JMS and J2EE tasks are documented--FioranoMQ and BEA WebLogic Server are explained thoroughly. --David Wall

Topics covered: The Java Message Service (JMS) as a means of implemented distributed computing among Java classes. Focusing on the JMS 1.0.2 release, this book covers the contents of JMS messages, point-to-point messaging, pub/sub messaging, integration with JavaServer Pages (JSP), clustering, and JMS for mobile applications.

From the Publisher

This book is for professional Java developers who need to add enterprise messaging capabilities to their applications. No knowledge of JMS is required but it is assumed that the reader is familiar with Java and preferably with the enterprise APIs of JNDI, JSP and EJB, as well as some knowledge of XML.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 641 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1st edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861004931
• ISBN-13: 978-1861004932
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,301,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A useful book about JMS, August 9, 2001

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Dennis Djenfer (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional JMS (Paperback)

This book covers a lot of ground about JMS. However, the problem is that it is written by many authors, which results in repetition of some subject, bad structure of the book and more pages than necessary for explaining the subjects.

The first 5 chapters are on 250 pages and cover the basic about JMS, but I think "Java Message Service" by Monson-Haefel does a better job here. However, I appreciate that there are sequence diagrams in the first chapter that shows basic design patterns for MOM-based applications. The next two chapters is code example that shows how to use JMS from a web application and from EJBs. I'm not too found about this kind of lengthy code examples.

The chapter about JMS and Clustering is very technical, but still only scratches the surface. This is a subject that needs an own book to be covered completely. The next chapter called "Distributed Logging Using JMS" is again a lengthy code example, but a very useful one!

Chapter 10 is about XML Messaging with some XML code example. I think this chapter, like some of the other chapters as well, covers too little to be of some real value and too much for just being an overview. Chapter 11 is about Mobile Applications and the criticism against this chapter is the same as the chapter about XML.

All and all this is a book that covers a lot of subjects related to JMS, but it does it in a boring and verbose way.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just not right, July 30, 2001

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Ashish (Clarksburg, Moldova, Republic of) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional JMS (Paperback)

This book is just a copy of JMS tutorials from java site and has examples which are written using jmq which is no longer available as it has now become part of iPlanet group and they have broken compatibility (Interfaces have been changed) Not the worst book but certainly worst wrox book i have ever read

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent JMS reference for programmers, April 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Professional JMS (Paperback)

I don't know which book "Michael Vinyard" from "London, UK" read, but this book is most certainly not written "by a vendor or a friend of a vendor".

It's an excellent reference for JMS, and for understanding how to integrate JMS with other J2EE technologies such as EJB and JSP/Servlets.

It's packed full of real world, useful, examples and certainly not "fluff". It provides some interesting examples to show you how you to use JMS in ***real-world*** scenarios and is better, in my opinion, than the other JMS books out there.

"Another blaming book"? What in tarnation does that mean? Not a very helpful review. Obviously this person never read the book or even cracked the cover on it.