Excellent Introduction... it will get you started
If you are looking into JMS for use at work or you are just curious, this straight-to-the-point and easy read will start you on your way. While not going into absurd depth about the topic, the author provides a wonderful overview and core knowledge transfer for the reader.
Quick and easy to read, this no-fluff title will give you everything you need to get started with JMS.
If you are a beginner, this will get you started off with an extremely solid foundation. If you are a pro, it will give you a great "step-back view" of the methodology that you are utilizing.
Good for all, but recommended as EVERYONE'S introduction to JMS.
Decent Book
As a beginner to JMS, I found this book to be very useful. Most chapters have examples and the book also gives you the link where you can download code for the examples. The examples are simple and clear for the most part (except in couple of places) to illustrate the concepts related to JMS. I tested the code on BEA Weblogic Server and it runs fine without any problem. There are some minor errors in one or two examples but they can be spotted readily once you read the book and you should be able to fix them with relative ease. Overall I found this book to be a nice introduction to JMS. However, as another reviewer mentioned, keep in mind that this book is now more than 5 years old and JMS has been updated since then. Still it is a good buy if you are new to this topic.
Good introduction but need some updating to JMS 1.1
This is a reasonable good book, as you can expect from O'Reilly. There is a good introduction in the topic (e.g. where is Messaging used for, what kind of messaging does exist, what is JMS), and it offers chapters with some practical code how you send and receive messages, and so on. It contains real Java code with excellent explanation.
If you're familar with Java, don't know anything of Middleware and JMS, this is a pretty good start. If you read this book, and you play with an free open source JMS implementation (e.g. ActiveMQ), you will soon get things working.
*HOWEVER* This book is now arround 5 years old and *ONLY* covers JMS 1.02, where JMS 1.1 is now common.
*BUT* the majority of all other JMS books are also 3-5 years old, and some also covers only JMS 1.02.
If you keep this in mind, I think this is a pretty good purchase.
ok, but a little outdated
The basics were covered, but I felt this book was a little outdated. There werent alot of books to choose from so I chose this book because it seemed like it had the most coverage.
Decent Book on JMS
If you're looking to learn JMS, then this is a decently good book to get you started. One of the best things about it is that it's not very thick and it gets to the point pretty quickly.
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