Messaging becomes the obvious choice because of its inherent asynchronous nature and strong integration with J2EE application servers via JMS (Java Message Service) and message-driven beans (MDBs).

Message-driven beans never involved the concept of a home and a remote, or local, interface. In EJB 3.0, the MessageDriven annotation is used to mark and specify a message-driven bean.

Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated for EJB 3.0. This edition features chapters on session beans and message-driven beans, EJB ...

This fourth installment of Monson-Haefel's Guide to Enterprise JavaBeans describes the EJB Timer Service API, its use with entity, stateless session, and message-driven beans, and provides some ...

Java Message Service 2nd Edition by Mark Richards covers JMS topics like Publish-and-Subscribe & Point-to-Point, Messaging Filtering and Transactions. InfoQ spoke with Mark about his new book.

A Message-Driven Bean, or MDB, implements business process logic in response to receipt of an asynchronous message through the Java Messaging Service (JMS). Click here to know more…!