What is JMS?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=772 Created: Nov 10, 1999 Modified: 1999-11-10 16:20:17.574 Author: Jerry Smith (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=9) Java Message Service (JMS) is a specification for message passing and related operations among distributed software components. JMS vendors implement the specification, providing the requisite API library, plus a broker, or server, that handles message passing among clients. Programmers then implement applications that communicate with each other by way of the vendor’s JMS software.