About the JMS Service

To support JMS messaging, the JMS Service provides the following administrative objects:

JMS Service Configuration

The JMS service configuration is part of the overall configuration for a GlassFish standalone instance or cluster. It specifies how the JMS Service is to create and maintain connections with JMS Hosts.

JMS Hosts

JMS hosts are the message servers that host destinations, store messages, and interact with applications to send and receive messages across connections. In Message Queue, JMS hosts are called brokers.

The JMS service supports these types of JMS hosts:

• Embedded type, in which the JMS host runs in the same JVM as the GlassFish instance; its configuration and lifecycle are managed by the JMS service

• Local type, in which the JMS host runs separately on the same host as the GlassFish instance; its configuration and lifecycle are managed by the JMS service

• Remote type, in which the JMS host represents a Message Queue broker or broker cluster that is external to the JMS service; its operation is managed using Message Queue administrative tools

For more information about JMS host types, see About JMS Host Types.

JMS Connection Factory Resources

JMS connection factory resources house the information that applications use to connect to a JMS provider. For each JMS connection factory, the JMS service automatically maintains a GlassFish connector resource and a GlassFish connector connection pool in order to support connection pooling and failover.

JMS Destination Resources

JMS destination resources house the information that applications use to specify the target destination of messages they produce and the source destination of messages they consume. For each JMS destination resource, the JMS service automatically maintains a GlassFish administered object.

JMS Physical Destinations

JMS physical destinations provide a means to create and manage JMS destinations administratively instead of having them created dynamically when needed by an application. While dynamic creation of destinations is often sufficient during application development, administratively created physical destinations are more suitable for production environments.

JMS Service High Availability

Just as GlassFish Server supports clusters of instances to provide high availability, Message Queue supports clusters of brokers to provide service availability or service and data availability, depending on the type of broker cluster, as described in Chapter 4, Broker Clusters, in Oracle GlassFish Server Message Queue 4.5 Technical Overview.

The JMS service takes advantage of this Message Queue capability and automatically creates and manages a Message Queue broker cluster when a GlassFish cluster's configuration specifies Embedded or Local type JMS hosts. Additionally, both GlassFish clusters and standalone instances can use Message Queue broker clusters as Remote type JMS hosts.

For information about how the JMS service supports GlassFish clusters and Message Queue broker clusters, see Chapter 11, Configuring Java Message Service High Availability, in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1-3.1.1 High Availability Administration Guide.