Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4 Release Notes

JMS Bridge Service

Because the JMS specification does not define a wire protocol for communication between brokers and clients, each JMS provider (including Message Queue) has defined and uses its own propriety protocol. This situation has led to non-interoperability across JMS providers.

The JMS bridge service in Message Queue 4.4 closes this gap by enabling a Message Queue broker to map its destinations to destinations in external JMS providers. This mapping effectively allows the Message Queue broker to communicate with clients of the external JMS provider.

The JMS bridge service supports mapping destinations in external JMS providers that:

Many open source and commercial JMS providers meet these requirements, which makes the JMS bridge service an effective way to integrate Message Queue into an existing messaging environment that employs other JMS providers.

For more information about the JMS bridge service see: