9 Message-Driven Beans

The following sections discuss the tasks in creating an MDB in Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J) and demonstrate MDB development with a basic configuration to use either Oracle Application Server JMS (OracleAS JMS) or Oracle JMS as the JMS provider.

• MDB Overview

• MDB Example

• MDB Using OracleAS JMS

• MDB Using Oracle JMS

• Client Access of MDB

• Windows Considerations When Using MDBs

• Failover Scenarios When Using a RAC Database

• Using Timers With Your MDB

Download the MDB example used in this chapter from the OC4J sample code page at on the OTN Web site.