Java Message Service

ALSO CALLED: Java Messaging Service, JMS
DEFINITION: Java Message Service (JMS) is an application program interface (API) from Sun Microsystems that supports the formal communication known as messaging between computers in a network. Sun's JMS provides a common interface to standard messaging protocols and also to special messaging services in support of Java programs. Sun advocates the use of the Java Message Service for anyone developing Java applications,  … 
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JAVA MESSAGE SERVICE DEFINITION (continued): …  which can be run from any major operating system platform.The messages involved exchange crucial data between computers - rather than between users - and contain information such as event notification and service requests. Messaging is often used to coordinate programs in dissimilar systems or written in different programming languages.Using the JMS interface, a programmer can invoke the messaging services of IBM's MQSeries, Progress Software's SonicMQ, and other popular messaging product vendors. In addition, JMS supports messages that contain serialized Java objects and messages that contain … 
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