A connection is a relatively heavy-weight object because of the authentication and communication setup that must be done when a connection is created. For this reason, it’s a good idea to use as few connections as possible. The real allocation of work occurs in sessions, which are light-weight, single-threaded contexts for producing and consuming messages. When you are thinking about structuring your client, it is best to think of the work that is done at the session level.
Is a factory for its message producers and consumers
Supplies provider-optimized message factories
Supports a single series of transactions that combine work spanning its producers and consumers into atomic units
Defines a serial order for the messages it consumes and the messages it produces
Retains messages until they have been acknowledged
Serializes execution of message listeners registered with its message consumers
The requirement that sessions be operated on by a single thread at a time places some restrictions on the combination of producers and consumers that can use the same session. In particular, if a session has an asynchronous consumer, it may not have any other synchronous consumers. For a discussion of the connection and session’s use of threads, see Managing Client Threads. With the exception of these restrictions, let the needs of your application determine the number of sessions, producers, and consumers.