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Question: How Does the JMS API Work with the J2EE Platform?

Answer: When the JMS API was introduced in 1998, its most important purpose was to allow Java applications to access existing messaging-oriented middleware (MOM) systems, such as MQSeries from IBM. Since that time, many vendors have adopted and implemented the JMS API, so that a JMS product can now provide a complete messaging capability for an enterprise.
Since the 1.3 release of the J2EE platform ("the J2EE 1.3 platform"), the JMS API has been an integral part of the platform, and application developers can use messaging with components using J2EE APIs ("J2EE components").
The JMS API in the J2EE platform has the following features.
* Application clients, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, and Web components can send or synchronously receive a JMS message. Application clients can in addition receive JMS messages asynchronously. (Applets, however, are not required to support the JMS API.)
* Message-driven beans, which are a kind of enterprise bean, enable the asynchronous consumption of messages. A JMS provider may optionally implement concurrent processing of messages by message-driven beans.
* Message sends and receives can participate in distributed transactions.

The JMS API enhances the J2EE platform by simplifying enterprise development, allowing loosely coupled, reliable, asynchronous interactions among J2EE components and legacy systems capable of messaging. A developer can easily add new behavior to a J2EE application with existing business events by adding a new message-driven bean to operate on specific business events. The J2EE platform's EJB container architecture, moreover, enhances the JMS API by providing support for distributed transactions and allowing for the concurrent consumption of messages.
Another J2EE platform technology, the J2EE Connector Architecture, provides tight integration between J2EE applications and existing Enterprise Information (EIS) systems. The JMS API, on the other hand, allows for a very loosely coupled interaction between J2EE applications and existing EIS systems.
At the 1.4 release of the J2EE platform, the JMS provider may be integrated with the application server using the J2EE Connector Architecture. You access the JMS provider through a resource adapter. For more information, see the Enterprise JavaBeans Specification, v2.1, and the J2EE Connector Architecture Specification, v1.5.