JMS interfaces

WebSphere Application Server supports applications that use JMS 1.1 domain-independent interfaces and domain-specific interfaces as provided for JMS 1.0.2 in WAS v5.

WebSphere Application Server supports applications that use JMS 1.1 domain-independent interfaces (referred to as the "common interfaces" in the JMS specification). With JMS 1.1, the preferred approach for implementing applications is to use the common interfaces. The JMS 1.1 common interfaces provide a simpler programming model than domain-specific interfaces. Also, applications can create both queues and topics in the same session and coordinate their use in the same transaction.

The common interfaces are also parents of domain-specific interfaces. These domain-specific interfaces (provided for JMS 1.0.2 in WAS v5) are supported only to provide backward compatibility for applications that have already been implemented to use those interfaces.

Common interfaces point-point interfaces publish/subscribe interfaces
ConnectionFactory QueueConnectionFactory TopicConnectionFactory
Connection QueueConnection TopicConnection
Destination Queue Topic
Session QueueSession TopicSession
MessageProducer QueueSender TopicPublisher
MessageConsumer QueueReceiver, QueueBrowser TopicSubscriber

For more information about JMS interfaces, see the JMS documentation at http://java.sun.com/products/jms/docs.html.