Overview of the sendremote Example Modules

This pair of modules is somewhat similar to the modules in An Application Example That Consumes Messages from a Remote Server in that the only components are a client and a message-driven bean. However, the modules here use these components in more complex ways. One module consists of the application client. The other module contains only the message-driven bean and is deployed twice, once on each server.

The basic steps of the modules are as follows.

1. You start two Java EE servers, one on each system.

2. On the local server (earth), you create two connection factories: one local and one that communicates with the remote server (jupiter). On the remote server, you create a connection factory that has the same name as the one that communicates with the remote server.

3. The application client looks up the two connection factories (the local one and the one that communicates with the remote server) to create two connections, sessions, publishers, and subscribers. The subscribers use a message listener.

4. Each publisher publishes five messages.

5. Each of the local and the remote message-driven beans receives five messages and sends replies.

6. The client’s message listener consumes the replies.

Figure 31–6 illustrates the structure of this application. M1 represents the first message sent using the local connection factory, and RM1 represents the first reply message sent by the local MDB. M2 represents the first message sent using the remote connection factory, and RM2 represents the first reply message sent by the remote MDB.

Figure 31–6 A Java EE Application That Sends Messages to Two Servers