Java Message Service, Second Edition, is a thorough introduction to the standard API that supports "messaging" -- the software-to-software exchange of crucial data among network computers. You'll learn how JMS can help you solve many architectural challenges, such as integrating dissimilar systems and applications, increasing scalability, eliminating system bottlenecks, supporting concurrent processing, and promoting flexibility and agility.

Updated for JMS 1.1, this second edition also explains how this vendor-agnostic specification will help you write messaging-based applications using IBM's MQ, Progress Software's SonicMQ, ActiveMQ, and many other proprietary messaging services.

With Java Message Service, you will:

* Build applications using point-to-point and publish-and-subscribe messaging models

* Use features such as transactions and durable subscriptions to make an application reliable

* Implement messaging within Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using message-driven beans

* Use JMS with RESTful applications and with the Spring application framework

Messaging is a powerful paradigm that makes it easier to uncouple different parts of an enterprise application. Java Message Service, Second Edition, will quickly teach you how to use the key technology that lies behind it.

Mark Richards是一位造诣颇深的作者和会议演讲者，他是金融服务行业的实战型SOA和企业体系结构师。除了发表大量文章之外，他还是《Java Transaction Design Strategies》（C4Media）的作者，以及《97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know》（O’Reilly）和《No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volumes 1 and 2》（Pragmatic Bookshelf）的丛集著者。他是消息传送机制、面向服务体系结构和事务管理领域的公认权威。Mark是NFJS软件研讨会（NFJS Software Symposium）系列的固定演讲者，并在世界各地的会议上发表演说。

Richard Monson-Haefel是《Enterprise JavaBeans, Fifth Edition》（O’Reilly）、《Java Message Service》（O’Reilly）的作者，同时，他也是企业计算领域全球领先的专家和图书作者。

David A.Chappell是Oracle公司的副总裁兼SOA首席技术专家。他因编著《Java Web Services》（O’Reilly）、《Professional ebXML Foundations》（Wrox）和《Java Message Service》（O’Reilly）而著称。