How does JMS compare to peer-to-peer distributed computing?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=790 Created: Nov 10, 1999 Modified: 1999-11-24 19:35:01.711 Author: Jerry Smith (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=9) The term peer-to-peer is used in a variety of ways in distributed and network computing. One usage, at the application level, is to describe a distributed application scenario in with each distributed component potentially interacts with every other distributed component and maintains a network reference (access) to each component (using any of several mechanisms to do so, for example, via Enterprise JavaBeans and EJB servers resident on each network host, via simple RMI-based communication among applications, and so on). With JMS, distributed components interact with the JMS broker via destinations (topics and queues), which then disseminates messages to the registered clients; thus, distributed components do not have to know (and manage) each others’ network locations. As for the JMS middleware, it can use (behin