Oracle GlassFish Message Queue 4.4.2 Technical Overview

Administration Tasks

This section describes the tasks that you need to complete to support a Message Queue development or a production environment.

Supporting a Development Environment

In developing a client component, it’s best to keep administrative work to a minimum. The Message Queue product is designed to help you do this and can be used out of the box. It should be enough just to start the broker. The following practices allow you to focus on development:

Supporting a Production Environment

In a production environment, message service management plays a key role in application performance and in meeting the enterprise requirements for scaling, availability, and security. In this environment, the administrator has many more tasks to perform. These can be roughly divided into setup and maintenance operations.

Setup Operations

Typically, you have to perform the following setup operations:

Maintenance Operations

To monitor and control broker resources and to tune application performance, you must do the following after an application has been deployed: