Programming to use message-driven beans

Applications can use message-driven beans as asynchronous message consumers. We deploy a message-driven bean as a message listener for a destination. When a message arrives at the destination, the EJB container invokes the message-driven bean automatically without an application having to explicitly poll the destination.

Use a tool such as Rational Application Developer to develop applications that use message-driven beans. Use the WebSphere Application Server runtime tools, such as the administrative console, to deploy and administer applications that use message-driven beans.

For more information about implementing enterprise applications that use message-drive beans, see the following topics:

Tasks

• Develop message-driven beans.
• Design an enterprise application to use message-driven beans.
• Develop an enterprise application to use message-driven beans.
• Deploy an enterprise application to use message-driven beans with JCA 1.5-compliant resources.
• Deploy an enterprise application to use message-driven beans with listener ports.

Subtopics

• Develop message-driven beans
  We can develop a bean implementation class for a message-driven bean as introduced by the Enterprise JavaBeans specification. A message-driven bean (MDB) is a message consumer that implements business logic and runs on the server.
• Designing an enterprise application to use message-driven beans
  To help you design your enterprise application, consider a generic enterprise application that uses one message-driven bean to retrieve messages from a JMS queue destination, and passes the messages on to another enterprise bean that implements the business logic.
• Develop an enterprise application to use message-driven beans
  Applications can use message-driven beans as asynchronous message consumers. We deploy a message-driven bean as a message listener for a destination. The message-driven bean is invoked by an activation specification or a JMS listener when a message arrives on the input destination being used monitored.