Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Who Should Use This Book
• Before You Read This Book
• How This Book Is Organized
• Documentation Conventions
• Related Documentation
• Documentation, Support, and Training
• Documentation Accessibility

1 Messaging Systems: An Introduction

• Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
• JMS as a MOM Standard
  • JMS Messaging Objects and Domains
  • Administered Objects
• Message Queue: Elements and Features
  • The Message Queue Service
    • The Broker
    • Client Runtime Support
    • Universal Message Service (UMS)
    • Administration
    • Broker Clusters: Scalability and Availability
  • Message Queue as an Enabling Technology
  • Message Queue Feature Summary

2 Client Programming Model

• Messaging Domains
  • Point-To-Point Messaging
  • Publish/Subscribe Messaging
  • Domain-Specific and Unified APIs
• Programming Objects
  • Connection Factories and Connections
  • Sessions
  • Messages
    • Message Header
    • Message Properties
    • Message Body
• Producing a Message
• Consuming a Message
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Consumers
  • Using Selectors to Filter Messages
  • Using Durable Subscribers
• The Request-Reply Pattern
• Reliable Message Delivery
  • Acknowledgements
  • Transactions
    • Local Transactions
    • Distributed Transactions
  • Persistent Storage
• A Message's Journey Through the System
  • Message Production
  • Message Handling and Routing
  • Message Consumption
  • Message End-of-Life
• Design and Performance
• Working with SOAP Messages
• Java and C Clients

3 The Message Queue Broker

• Broker Services
  • Connection Services
    • Port Mapper Service
    • Thread Pool Management
  • Message Delivery Services
    • Physical Destinations
    • Managing Memory
  • Persistence Services
    • File-Based Persistence
    • JDBC-Based Persistence
  • Security Services
    • Authentication and Authorization
    • JAAS-Based Authentication
    • Encryption
  • Bridge Services
    • JMS Bridge Service
    • STOMP Bridge Service
  • Monitoring Services
    • Metrics Generator
    • Logger
    • Metrics Message Producer
    • JMX MBeans
    • Java ES Monitoring Framework Support
• Administration Tools
  • Built-in Administration Tools
  • JMX-Based Administration
• Administration Tasks
  • Supporting a Development Environment
  • Supporting a Production Environment
    • Setup Operations
    • Maintenance Operations

4 Broker Clusters

• Cluster Models
• Cluster Message Delivery
  • Propagation of Information Across a Cluster
  • Message Delivery Mechanisms
• Conventional Clusters
• Enhanced Clusters
• Cluster Models Compared
• Cluster Configuration

5 Message Queue and Java EE

• JMS/Java EE Programming: Message-Driven Beans
• Java EE Application Server Support

A Message Queue Implementation of Optional JMS Functionality

• Optional Features

B Message Queue Features

• Feature List

Glossary