Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

1 Understanding Message-driven Beans

2 MDB Life Cycle

3 MDBs and Messaging Models

4 Deploying MDBs

5 Programming and Configuring MDBs: Main Steps

6 Programming and Configuring MDBs: Details

7 Using EJB 3.0 Compliant MDBs

8 Migration and Recovery for Clustered MDBs

9 Using Batching with Message-Driven Beans

10 Configuring and Deploying MDBs Using JMS Topics

11 Deployment Elements and Annotations for MDBs

A Topic Deployment Scenarios

B Topic Subscription Identifiers

C How WebLogic MDBs Leverage WebLogic JMS Extensions