This book shows how you can use the Java Message Service (JMS) to create robust, asynchronous, loosely-coupled Java applications. It covers both the fundamental and advanced features of the latest 1.02 API, in both the Point-to-Point and Publish/Subscribe messaging domains. With JMS provision becoming mandatory in the next generation of J2EE 1.3 application servers, this book will prepare you for building portable, messaging-enabled web and middle tier solutions, including the use of the new message-driven EJBs. It also covers the emerging uses of messaging in the mobile domain, and the strong relationship that is building between new XML messaging standards, and small footprint JMS clients. Finally, the book also provides a practical guide to the use of JMS against many of the leading messaging vendors available, including JMQ, FioranoMQ, WebLogic, and iBus//MessageServer.
Scott Grant is a Chief Architect with CascadeWorks, Inc., in San
Francisco, California, and has over fifteen years of diverse
development experience. An independent consultant for many years, he
has been a successful founder of two start-up companies, where he has
helped to build and shape the engineering teams and environments. A
Sun Certified Java Developer, Scott has published numerous technical
articles on Java programming subjects, and enjoys working with
emerging Java standards and technologies.
Paul Giotta holds
degrees in electrical engineering from both Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He began his
career in the field of R&D for advanced military radar systems at AIL
Systems in the US. He later moved to Switzerland and took up work in
the development and implementation of financial analytics for the
trading of fixed income derivatives at Credit Suisse. Paul ultimately
entered the field of software engineering full time when he began work
on the architecture and implementation of real-time distributed
trading systems (based entirely on Publish/Subscribe messaging) at
CS. He later moved on to the development of financial information
systems at Olsen & Associates and also worked as an IT consultant for
Cambridge Technology Partners. Paul is now chief architect for message
servers at Softwired AG in Zurich.
Michael Kovacs is a Sun
Certified Java 2 Programmer and has been working in Java for the past
3 years. He has worked on all aspects of web based software
development from the browser to the database. He has recently joined
BEA Systems in San Francisco, CA as a Senior Software Engineer working
with the WebLogic team. Before joining BEA he relocated last spring
from his home in Cleveland, OH to San Francisco to work for
Carstation.com, which is where the basis for this book's work was
inspired. In his previous programming life he was a C programmer who
started out writing software for lottery systems. He has a Bachelor's
degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from The University of
Dayton. He can be reached at Michael_P_Kovacs@yahoo.com. Meeraj
Kunnumpurath works as a Senior Information Specialist with Electronic
Data Systems, responsible for designing enterprise helpdesk and
billing systems mainly using J2EE and XML.
Silvano Maffeis is CTO
at Softwired, a leading vendor of Java messaging middleware for
wireline and wireless networks. Silvano holds a Ph.D. in computer
science and is the author of numerous publications about Java software
development, middleware, and wireless communication.
K. Scott
Morrison is the Director, Architecture and Technology, for Infowave
Software. He is currently leading a number of teams confronting the
challenges in opening corporate data stores to an ever-increasing
variety of wireless devices. He is a frequent and very popular speaker
on topics in XML, Java, and wireless system architectures. Prior to
his joining Infowave, Scott was the Senior Architect in the e-business
division at IBM's Pacific Development Centre. While at IBM, his focus
was on building high-volume, high-transaction rate web systems for
travel and transportation, as well as designing and auditing Internet
security architectures for government and financial sector
clients.
Scott began his career by spending eight years involved
in medical imaging research at the University of British
Columbia. Here, he worked on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) brain
scanner design, produced educational CDROMs about Alzheimer's disease
for physicians, and conducted original research into neurodegenerative
disorders. He has been published extensively in leading journals in
medicine and in physics. He has also been a consultant on a number of
feature film and television productions. Scott's current research
interests lie in enterprise XML messaging architectures, Java/XML
integration, and development frameworks for wireless systems.
Gopalan Suresh Raj is a senior analyst, software architect, and
developer with expertise in multi-tiered systems development,
enterprise component architectures, and distributed object
computing. He is also an active author, including contributions to
Enterprise Java Computing-Applications and Architecture, Cambridge
University Press, 1999, and The Awesome Power of JavaBeans, Manning
Publications Co., 1998. His work has been published in numerous
technical journals. Visit him at his popular website
gsraj.tripod.com or mail him at gopalan@gmx.net.
