The real-world guide to JMS messaging with IBM WebSphere technologies

This book offers start-to-finish guidance for building reliable, high-performance JMS-based messaging infrastructure with IBM WebSphere technologies.

IBM expert Kareem Yusuf systematically introduces the latest versions of JMS—both 1.1 and 1.02b. Once you've thoroughly mastered JMS development on any platform, Yusuf turns to the exceptional JMS support found in IBM's WebSphere products. Using extensive code examples, he walks you step-by-step through WebSphere JMS development, configuration, deployment, and administration in several real-world scenarios. Coverage includes:

• Roles and goals of messaging infrastructure in the enterprise
• Key JMS concepts: messaging domains, messages, and Application Server Facilities
• Defining/structuring content, choosing message types, and manipulating messages
• The JMS API, explained through detailed code examples
• Using JMS with EJB, message-driven beans, servlets, and portlets
• Working with IBM WebSphere JMS providers, administered objects, and tools
• Hands-on tutorials: EJB message exchange, integration with non-JMS applications, and SSL security
• Resource location and physical topologies for maximizing availability and efficiency

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Download an extensive library of code samples for JMS 1.1 and 1.02b, including complete functional prototypes built for JMS 1.02b.

About The Author


KAREEM YUSUF, IBM Technical Sales Professional, has technical leadership responsibilities for JMS and IBM WebSphere customer implementations. He previously served as Technical Team Lead for WebSphere MQ JMS in IBM's WebSphere MQ Technical Support (Service) Organization at Hursley, UK. He has been working with WebSphere, JMS, and related enterprise messaging technologies since 1998.

Customer Reviews & Comments
Java Messaging System arises out of the need to have loosely coupled objects associated in a J2EE architecture be able to communicate asynchronously with each other. In part because these objects might be physically quite distant from each other, like an application client and a web container that are both on the Internet. The objects may have variable loads and so the buffering of messages is preferable if any object is too busy to attend to an incoming message. Plus, objects may have intermittent connectivity to the net. Especially if mobile/nomadic computing takes off. In any of these scenarios, IBM sees a need for a web server, mediating between applications and a large database (DB2 in IBM's case). That server or container is WebSphere. The bulk of the book therefore deals with how WebSphere implements JMS. The book makes explicitly clear that IBM's implementation fully satisfies the JMS versions 1.02b and 1.1 APIs. Which means that a third party client application that can handle these versions can send and receive messages to WebSphere via JMS. You can consider this as an extra enabling inducement for independent software vendors to write code that hooks to WebSphere. Various examples are given; the book terms these JMS scenarios. Most importantly is how to use Enterprise Java Beans to swap messages via JMS. For commercial applications, another example shows the ability to encrypt the messages. Now hopefully, ISVs will partake of the book's offerings. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)