JMS support on GlassFish

Message-based solutions are playing an increasingly important role nowadays, as more and more systems need to be integrated together and need to communicate with each other in a loosely-coupled manner. In this section, we briefly introduce the core concepts of messaging system and the JMS standard, and then describe how GlassFish supports JMS resources.

Message-based systems and JMS

A simplified view of a typical message-based system is illustrated in the following figure.