Whats MOM?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=240828 Created: Oct 30, 2000 Modified: 2000-10-30 20:09:44.097 Author: neal ravindran (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=17737) Question originally posed by John Zukowski PREMIUM (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7 Middleware is usually something that sits between a client and a server. Or, in simpler terms, between a requestor and a requestee. A request can be considered as a message. Different software components in a distributed computing network need to pass messages between themselves, asynchronously. MOM, or Message Oriented Middleware is software that sits between two such communicating software components. MOM products facilitate this message-passing by using a technique called queueing. Messages are stored in queues until the client which requested it can “read” it in a FIFO fashion, or on a priority basis. The queueing technique thus eliminates complex connection overhead, and also helps the communicating softwa
