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Jakarta Messaging overview

Jakarta Messaging overview

From the course: Learning JakartaEE

Jakarta Messaging overview

- [Instructor] Messaging is a method of communication between software components or applications. It enables loosely coupled distributed communication. A component in a software application sends a message to a destination, and the recipient can then retrieve the message from the destination. The destination is what makes the communication loosely coupled because it is all that the sender and receiver have in common. Also, the sender and the receiver do not have to be available at the same time in order to communicate. The sender does not need to know anything at all about the receiver, and the receiver does not need to know anything about the sender. The sender and the receiver need to only know the message format and the destination to use. So Jakarta Messaging is a Java API that allows applications to create, send, receive, and consume messages. Jakarta Messaging defines a common set of interfaces so that you as a developer can use different messaging products with maximum…

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