Java Message Service

The WebSphere MQ Everyplace classes for Java Message Service (JMS) are a set of Java classes that implement the Sun JMS interfaces to enable JMS programs to access WebSphere MQ Everyplace systems. This chapter describes how to use the WebSphere MQ Everyplace classes for JMS.

The initial release of JMS classes for WebSphere MQ Everyplace Version 2.0, supports the point-to-point model of JMS, but does not support the publish or subscribe model.

The use of JMS as the API to write WebSphere MQ Everyplace applications has a number of benefits, because JMS is open standard:

This chapter contains information under the following headings:

More information about the benefits of the JMS API is on Sun's Web site at http://java.sun.com.